Comments on: Guardian Cryptic N° 25,637 by Paul

By: Huw Powell

Huw Powell — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:18:25 +0000

Grump grump, 1d lacks a definition, grump grump.

Just wasn’t on Paul’s Envelope with this one. Got a lot of it, but groaned more than smiled. Oh well.

Keep ‘em coming!

By: Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:14:42 +0000

Oh, you’re just … you.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:58:38 +0000

Oh Paul.You are so sensitive.
I was agreeing with your view and opposing the ‘another’. But still you contrive to be mardy towards me.
Perhaps you failed, on the last occasion you insulted me, to read the several other posters who disapproved of your post.
What have I done to incite such an uncivilised response from someone so otherwise obviously intelligent?

By: Median

Median — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:10:10 +0000

Thanks, Paul, for BAUXITE and COPPER NITRATE. I saw these as your two penn’orth towards rectifying the arts bias that I sometimes grumble about.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:25:35 +0000

‘Founding members Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown, all from the Brewster-Douglass public housing project in Detroit, formed The Primettes as the sister act to The Primes (with Paul Williams and Eddie Kendricks, who went on to form The Temptations). Barbara Martin replaced McGlown in 1960, and the group signed with Motown the following year as The Supremes. Martin left the act in early 1962, and Ross, Ballard, and Wilson carried on as a trio’. So now you know.

Re Paris, you might like to check your -ian endings, but perhaps unsurprisingly, even in light of your own clever remarks, I don’t feel the need to defend another’s decision as it pertains to any clue of mine.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:04:16 +0000

I think she achieved separate billing only after she got together with the label boss.

By: g larsen

g larsen — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:21:38 +0000

Made life difficult by putting in Tommy Simpson rather than Homer – Doh! No wonder the NE corner became impossible.

But Tommy was a ‘yellow fellow’ too, as the first Englishman to wear the Tour de France yellow jersey, so I have some excuse.

It may be pedantic, but I too don’t like describing Diana Ross as supreme when the group’s title clearly placed her outside the Supremes.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:00:14 +0000

PaulB
I presume that refers to Helen.
But Parisian, meaning related to Paris (the man), does not exist as a word, does it?
I think using invented word meanings (in definitions) is going too far even for me.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:09:07 +0000

Quite right too.

By: Miche

Miche — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:32:11 +0000

RCWhiting @9 and liz @15: I always think YOU or YOUR first in such phrases, then remember that it’s probably ONE or ONE’S, then wait till I have confirmation from a crossing clue before writing it in.

Paul B @18: I do enjoy oblique definitions (e.g. MOVIEGOER above), but I wasn’t asking for a “sideways look” on BAUXITE, and I certainly wouldn’t suggest replacing an accurate definition with an inaccurate one.