Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 655 Orlando http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 09:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195303 Robi Mon, 04 Jun 2012 22:19:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195303 [[Thanks scchua; I think I should get an honorable mention for Cat Ballou.]]

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195293 Sil van den Hoek Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:08:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195293 This was almost the perfect Quiptic.
Very accessible for the ones who just crept out of the cradle to explore the Wond’rous World of Crosswords.
And for someone like me, half-way The End (??, :) ), it was very enjoyable too.
I particularly liked two of the shorter Down ones: 6 (because of criminal/record) and 8 (because of the nice surface and the fine definition).

Many thanks to the inimitable Orlando & Scchua (wish I could be triggered by your picture competition).

]]> By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195289 Derek Lazenby Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:03:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195289 Yes, more or less fine. No sure how well known Jesse is to younger solvers, iconic though he was to older solvers.

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195273 scchua Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:57:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195273 [[Hi Robi again.
Between you and Andrew, you had:
Roddy McDowall and Elizabeth Taylor were in "LASSIE Come Home";
Scott Joplin's music was used in "The Sting", which could very well have been called "The CON";
Leslie Caron was in "Daddy LONG LEGs", with Fred Astaire;
Joseph Haydn's String Quartet Opus 64 #5 is nicknamed "The LARK".
Well done. I've added links in the blog to the remaining 2 answers, so that you may check them when you like.]]

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195270 Robi Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:13:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195270 [[I think Joplin is in Missouri, not Oregon; I think I'll have to give up now]]

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195268 Robi Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:00:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195268 [[Haydn's Opus 64 #5 is "The Lark"]]

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195257 Robi Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:18:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195257 [[There is a town called Joplin, OREGON]]

]]> By: Kathryn's Dad http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195255 Kathryn's Dad Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:32:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195255 I thought this was an excellent Quiptic from Orlando – one or two challenging clues, but all fair and some nice touches, including OREGON and LONG LEG. But there was much else in the ‘easy but good’ category to admire. But DOG STAR is such a bad pun that Orlando surely cannot be sirius …

Thanks to setter and blogger.

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195254 scchua Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:16:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195254 [[Hi Robi and Andrew, sorry to disappoint, but not time to give out the cigars yet. IDs are all correct, but for the links it's 4 pins down, 3 still standing!]]

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/04/guardian-quiptic-655-orlando/#comment-195251 Robi Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:56:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45028#comment-195251 [[Andrew @6; we crossed - let's see if we missed anything]]

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