Comments on: Guardian 25,648 by Crucible

By: dan b

dan b — Wed, 30 May 2012 13:13:28 +0000

I am absolutely gutted ,just having checked my answers,to discover I got one wrong! I had 17 across as Gaudi (I remember thinking at the time that he was a bit young to be considered an old master)(G (note) aud (old) i (one)). It never occurred to me to include golfers as “old masters”. On that basis why wasnt Auracaria woven in somewhere?

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 30 May 2012 01:23:04 +0000

Re Flash @ 38, I wasn’t aware of any such adversity either until I went to the Graun’s own thread, probably out of sheer boredom, or somewhat flatter curiosity, a few weeks ago: in it, there were quite a few sneers (from vaguely recognisable sources, it seems to me) at somehow pompous or ‘nit-picking’ fifteen squarites, esp. with reference to our Grauniad thread. We weren’t laid back enough re contentious and/ or off-topic remarks, apparently, and had some really strange views about fairness.

Perhaps the GU Army now comes in peace, or marches upon us.

By: Kjbsoton

Kjbsoton — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:29:20 +0000

So pleased to see the definition of 8dn, thanks

By: Mingulay

Mingulay — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:28:32 +0000

Jeremy M:
Try the Everyman crossword in the Observer.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Tue, 29 May 2012 21:46:40 +0000

Jeremy M
Good luck, the long term benefits are considerable.
When you reach my age (70 last week) it is reassuring almost every day to hear someone tell me that solving cryptics is an excellent way to delay dementia.
Ref 8d. Probably the trickiest part to a tyro is ‘try’ = ‘hear’.
Try is used often because it is part of many words and can mean ‘go’,'hear’ etc. So when you see it you will automatically run through the possibilities rather than assume ‘attempt’.

By: flashling

flashling — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:46:05 +0000

@Briggg/Paul B – I was somewhat aware of an us/them between Indy/Guardian at 15sq didn’t realise that the G blog and 225 were at odds, really don’t understand why; seems to me we’re all on the same side and just crossword fans trying to help each other. Ho hum.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:20:43 +0000

Somewhat contentious at 34, but it’s still nice to see just about everyone (if that’s a sensible way to understand things) migrate over the last couple of days from The Guardian’s own crossword thread to good old 225. Hi!

By: tupu

tupu — Tue, 29 May 2012 20:15:27 +0000

Thanks flashling and Crucible

I found this generally amusing and quite hard in places. I was convinced 10a was Edda which left me in the lurch with 2d. I should have listened to the alarm bells over Edda which warned that (Van)dA was not good enough for ‘hacking museum’. ‘Hacking into’ would have been very helpful.

By: Jeremy M

Jeremy M — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:51:54 +0000

Thanks, Derek. It’s quite a learning curve!

By: Briggg

Briggg — Tue, 29 May 2012 19:44:08 +0000

Thanks Flashling (Also; anyone who ignores the us/them stances re 225 and The G thread wins my approval)