Comments on: Guardian Cryptic N° 25,651 by Orlando

By: brucew_aus

brucew_aus — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:16:27 +0000

This one had been kept in the holding bay for a couple of weeks . Reasonably straight forward when I finally got around to it with the crisp clueing and enough grist in it to get one thinking.

Last one in was PARITY which took a while for the penny to drop. Second last was DIGS which I ended up parsing wrongly – we have been using community leisure centres quite regularly now as temporary ‘digs’ following both fire and flooding disasters!

Jean Shrimpton’s mini dress at the 1965 Melbourne Cup carnival is still regularly discussed around spring time here.

By: wilbur

wilbur — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:22:51 +0000

You are a genius just branching out from the d telegraph this was a brain stretcher for me w

By: John Coleman

John Coleman — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:51:13 +0000

Peter,
thanks – I got the same result in the bath last night. But I didn’t expect to see the same Guardian Cryptic N° 25,651 by Orlando AGAIN in Glasgow this morning, billed as Guardian cryptic crossword for Saturday 2 June – complete with Name:…. Address:… fields etc but lacking the usual ‘must be received by the first post on the Friday…’

Happily Araucaria’s Prize crossword No 25,652 is available on line so I can do that. Would gave preferred a bank holiday double though.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:25:47 +0000

corectly correctly is correctly.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 11:25:01 +0000

Thanks wolfie. I do not have a printer but have emailed my grandson who, with luck, will present me with a copy tomorrow.
Azed and Araucaria on the same day!
I did notice that some clues were badly printed and was there an enumeration error?
Perhaps it will print-out corectly?

By: Wolfie

Wolfie — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 10:19:34 +0000

Hi RCW

You can find today’s correct prize crossword (by Araucaria) on the Guardian website. (Though I seem to recall you mentioning sometime ago that you don’t have a printer?)

Good luck!

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 09:53:32 +0000

Yes,Peter,what a disappointment.

By: Peter blackburn

Peter blackburn — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 07:53:40 +0000

This is also Saturday 2 prize crossword.

By: Median

Median — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:37:58 +0000

Pretty tough for me, but I felt it was worth the effort. The only one I didn’t get before coming here was STEVENS. PeterO’s parsing of this – ‘T’ in ‘SEVENS’, with CARDINALS = SEVENS – is plausible but vague (lots of cardinal numbers other than seven!). So I wonder if Orlando had something else in mind: the seven cardinal/deadly sins.

Thanks, Orlando and PeterO

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:54:05 +0000

I do like Orlando’s puzzles in the Grauniad. I think there’s just an understated quality to them, and as tupu says, a lightness of touch. ANDEAN, TOMMY and PARITY demonstrated that today, I thought. I only struggled with the last few on this one. JEAN SHRIMPTON and CAT STEVENS – as you say, Peter, of a certain generation. Thanks to you for the blog and to Orlando for the crossword.