Comments on: Azed 2084/Kibbutz HaOgen

By: Norman Hall

Norman Hall — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:06:06 +0000

23ac
Chambers gives Rise = ‘To be cheered’

25ac
Cryptic: “Put it on – it gets cold inside”

I think the cryptic says put ‘C’ in ‘Add it’
The second ‘it’ in the clue refers to the expression ‘Add it’ which means ‘Put ‘it’ on [the end]

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:00:37 +0000

Thanks ilancaron.

10d SENGREENS are houseleeks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sempervivum I’m not sure they are edible.

26d DSOMO (also zhomo or jomo) is the female version of the zho (also zo, dso, dzho or dzo), a cross between a boy yak and a girl cow. The boy results are zobo zobu or dsobo(s). All well worth knowing if you are into Scrabble.

By: Norman Hall

Norman Hall — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:27:33 +0000

I did of course mean *(a deb) with {OUT} in

By: Norman Hall

Norman Hall — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:25:43 +0000

Thanks for the blog.

re 2 down, you are of course correct, but a fuller explanation may go as follows:

Definition: Outburst
Cryptic: (a deb worried)- {what she was coming} in.
‘She’ in the phrase in curly brackets refers to the ‘deb’ in the clue.
what was she coming? She was coming OUT.
So the cryptic indicates that the answer is (a deb ) with {OUT} in.

I agreed with au(thor) in 28ac and cru(she)d in 31dn

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 20 May 2012 05:08:29 +0000

Thanks for the blog, ilancaron.

I must confess ignorance of Hebrew articles, but Chambers says the melon is named after the kibbutz where it was first developed, and your OGEN melon link says “These melon cultivars are all named for Ogen, a kibbutz in Israel.”

In 28ac, “writer after striking gold” is [au]THOR.

I think 31dn is CRU[she]D.