Comments on: Guardian Cryptic 25626 Pasquale http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:14:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192378 Paul B Sat, 05 May 2012 01:06:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192378 General knowledge.

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192318 scchua Fri, 04 May 2012 16:19:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192318 Tees@25, I had the same doubt cf. the last sentence in my comment for that clue. So it does look a birt of a GK clue, if you’d care to enlighten me what GK is, thank you. :-)

]]> By: Pasquale http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192298 Pasquale Fri, 04 May 2012 14:32:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192298 As a matter of fact this was a quick replacement for ADOS when I realised at proof stage that ADO is a mass noun. Having done NOVA reversed before for AVON (an obvious alternative for A-O-, AMOS being another old favourite)I remembered that Anthony Eden became the Earl of Avon, so this was in fact just a cryptic definition. It gets hard to come up with new clues for little words and I don’t like recycling clues if I can avoid it!

]]> By: Tees http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192261 Tees Fri, 04 May 2012 11:01:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192261 I don’t understand the AVON clue. Does it just mean that ‘towards the end’, Anthony Eden was given the title Earl of Avon? Bit of a GK clue if so! And, to be honest, I was misled by the fact that ‘towards the end’ can equate to ON.

]]> By: Pasquale http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192212 Pasquale Thu, 03 May 2012 20:21:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192212 Thanks all for your feedback, as ever — and especially for staying on message (unlike another blog we won’t mention with triple-figure contributions).

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192211 RCWhiting Thu, 03 May 2012 19:47:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192211 JD
Osmosis is the noun (see blog above).

]]> By: Johnny Dee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192208 Johnny Dee Thu, 03 May 2012 19:33:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192208 Isnt it supposed to be OSMOSIS, making 1a a misspelling?

]]> By: mike04 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192184 mike04 Thu, 03 May 2012 14:54:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192184 So was I, chas @ 20.
I thought maybe it was AVALON (paradise) with the middle part ignored: AV(AL)ON.
It’s ‘end’ not ‘ends’ in the clue though!

]]> By: chas http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192181 chas Thu, 03 May 2012 14:17:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192181 Thanks to scchua for the blog.

I had AVON as the only river I could think of that fitted that space – but was totally misled by Eden!

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/03/guardian-cryptic-25626-pasquale/#comment-192175 scchua Thu, 03 May 2012 12:27:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43692#comment-192175 Yes Robi that wraps it up. Thanks to all who gave it a try.

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