Comments on: Guardian 25618 – Paul http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:53:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: brucew_aus http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-191943 brucew_aus Tue, 01 May 2012 11:49:42 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-191943 Thanks Paul and UY for the blog.

Have a bit of a bank up of puzzles so only started this one on 29th and finished it off today – must admit to getting POCKET BILLIARDS on the train this morning and fellow passengers must have wondered about the big grin was about … think it would have to be one of the most unexpected and funny answers that I have solved.

It was a true battle with the last one in being BUDGET AIRLINE (persisted with SERVICE until finding the ROBINIA shrub finally).

And Mike@35 and Paul@36 there are always some latecomers to the finishing post!!

]]> By: paul8hours http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-191849 paul8hours Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:06:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-191849 Mike @ 35 – I beat you by giving up today. My mistake was to put in learner instead of trainee. I saw lear (as in jet) for plane and didn’t try to parse the rest of it.
I have several puzzles on the go at once, printed off the website as I am in CH. I try to put in a few answers for each every day.
Great puzzle even if I ended 2 short.

]]> By: mikewglospur http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-191777 mikewglospur Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:24:05 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-191777 Doesn’t anyone else ever take more than a day to complete one of these? Especially Paul’s puzzles (which I’m getting better at! I think it’s a matter of wavelength too, and getting used to the mindset). I eventually gave up on this last night (29th April) because I couldn’t get 10 across to fit, although I did get it as “outdo”. Discovered (thanks UY) that I’d got 2d wrong (I had “lapse”: lap = drink + se = second > lapse = a falling short (no, I didn’t like it, either!)). But I often take that long, and just persevere – I enjoyed this one hugely, precisely because it took so long! I usually set a time limit of a week. If I haven’t got it all by then, I come on this website for enlightenment. I don’t understand those who complain when a puzzle isn’t easy enough! If I wanted a quiet life I’d do a different kind of puzzle. I wonder if anyone will read this! I imagine regulars have long since left this page………

]]> By: apple granny http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-190876 apple granny Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:48:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-190876 We didn’t complete this until today – busy all day yesterday, then too weary to cope with such a challenge. Felt quite triumphant when we finished – one of the trickiest and most challenging for ages. Last in was Latte (2d) completing the top left corner which stumped us most. But we loved the rather naughty allusions everywhere. Thanks UY for your blog – the only reference we missed was Silvio!

]]> By: Ian SW3 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-190869 Ian SW3 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:44:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-190869 Belated thanks to UY @10 and Stella @14. Hovering does indeed seem to work.

]]> By: nametab http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-190830 nametab Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:00:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-190830 Just to say: appreciate the gentle wit Paul B @31(would do the smiley face, if I knew how). We’d best stick to crosswords on this site, though (although some potential wordplays in there too).

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-190826 Paul B Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:30:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-190826 Well, you lot eat him and drink his blood. Allow us mere mortals our occasional transgressions, for, um, goodness’ sakes.

]]> By: nametab http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-190813 nametab Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:23:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-190813 Thanks UY for some answers for what I found a tough one. Whilst appreciate digressions in the blogs,Jesus Christ deserves better than to be used as an expletive.

]]> By: Alan Moore http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-190804 Alan Moore Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:50:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-190804 This was far too difficult for me. I am impressed by all those that managed to finish it (I had to cheat to get started).
Many thanks to Uncle Yap for the explanations.

]]> By: MarianH http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/24/guardian-25618-paul/#comment-190793 MarianH Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:38:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43286#comment-190793 Thanks UY for an amusing blog. I found this an enjoyable slog, as all the answers were gettable from the cluing, without resort to any form of reference other than a somewhat dog-eared copy of Chambers, and the schoolboy humour gave rise to a few titters ;) . The only one I failed to parse was 15.

I have to confess, however, to being held up for quite a while in the NE, having entered goon @ 6 (Go on!), which seemed a perfectly plausible answer! It was only when the down solutions began to look rather clumsy that I began to question myself :)

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