Comments on: Guardian Cryptic 25635 Rufus

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:02:09 +0000

Another Rufus with its pluses and minuses.
Let’s concentrate on the real pluses: ORIGINAL (8ac), SAVANT (24ac), also 13d (LOWER CASE).

Rufus defeated us once more today – 5d.
According to Chambers, the only word that fitted was EUPHEMISM.
What a wonderful clue, worth the price of the paper alone. Priceless!

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:59:00 +0000

[[scchua; thanks for the links - I should have got the savant pianist David Helfgott. I concede defeat this time.]]

By: scchua

scchua — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:41:55 +0000

[[Robi@35, that was the amusing image I got of 24A - a savant having to learn to park a car. But there is a more direct link for DRIVER.]]

By: scchua

scchua — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:13:11 +0000

RCWhiting, glad something’s amused you .
BTW, to be exact, it’s [[ ]] I’m using, not {[[ nor {{{ }}} – just to ensure you haven’t made another ass-umption.

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:10:53 +0000

[[Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man as the SAVANT famously says: 'Raymond: I'm an excellent DRIVER.']]

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:48:01 +0000

It is quite amusing scchua that all the {[[ etc from both Ian and you completely passed me by.
Why?
Because I assumed it was all something to do with the quiz!
If the {{{}}} became standard that would certainly alleviate the problem.
Thanks for trying.

By: scchua

scchua — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:40:25 +0000

Further use of [[ ]] dependent on RCWhiting's response. [[Before I retire for the night, I've edited the blog to give links to answers to the picture quiz. Thanks to all those who gave it a shot. Robi, you're right about the Father Brown quotation.]]

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:36:45 +0000

QUIZ

[[ Where does a wise man hide a leaf? The quotation comes from one of G K Chesterton’s Father Brown stories, The Sign of the Broken Sword.]]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:56:38 +0000

[[Schua,

Seems like a sensible system to me]]

By: scchua

scchua — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:40:16 +0000

RCWhiting@28, I’m sorry, frankly, I do not understand your point. I made what I thought was a good suggestion (obviously it will only apply from this point on), even going beyond your original request, as my suggestion would apply to any comment whether or not they “refer only to the quiz”. I thought it was a simple, easily followed instruction, as understood and implemented by Ian SW3@27. I leave it to individual posters whether they would like to assist or not. But if you’re not happy with it, then I will rescind my offer (and maybe others too) – no hard feelings.
But going by your #29 it looks as if you may have not read my note properly, before responding with #28.
P.S. you know what they say about “assume”.