Comments on: Inquisitor 1228: Characters by Shark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/16/inquisitor-1228-characters-by-shark/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 10:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jake http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/16/inquisitor-1228-characters-by-shark/#comment-193413 Jake Wed, 16 May 2012 11:36:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43779#comment-193413 Nice one Shark. Most enjoyable. Keep ‘em coming!

]]> By: regalize http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/16/inquisitor-1228-characters-by-shark/#comment-193396 regalize Wed, 16 May 2012 08:47:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43779#comment-193396 Browning is one of my favourite poets, so I really enjoyed this puzzle. One of his works is entitled ‘House’, which sent me off researching the ‘characters’ of that US medi-soap (which I have never watched) so many happy hours up a gum tree. A lesson to be learned here too. DON’T throw away your old Chambers! That appendix is not in the 12th edition and I wouldn’t have been able to get Eryl or Rana without it.
Lovely puzzle Shark and informative blog from Holyghost.

]]> By: John Lowe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/16/inquisitor-1228-characters-by-shark/#comment-193393 John Lowe Wed, 16 May 2012 07:57:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=43779#comment-193393 I was curious about the unclued names in Pink and Blue, and looked them up in the appendix of Chambers:

Jackie is a diminutive of both John m and Jacqueline f
Sydney m and f from the surname
Kim m and f shortening of Irish Kimball, orig a surname, or of Kimberley
Terry m and f a diminutive of Terence, Teresa, also (m) from the surname
Rana m and f (Ar) beautiful object

Eryl m and f (Welsh) Watcher
Lee m and f from the surname
Joyce f formerly m (Celtic) Lord
Meredith m and f (Welsh) an anglicisation of Maredudd of uncertain meaning or from the surname

I hadn’t come across Eryl before, or Joyce as a man’s name… So all of them are both Men & Women.

Thanks to HG for the blog, which told me stuff I hadn’t realised about pangrams and to Shark for the crossword.

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