Comments on: AZED No. 2,087 Plain COMPETITION PUZZLE

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:06:34 +0000

Thanks, Azed and the Trafites. Yes, I saw 30A as PB does at #8. Esp liked PIECES, ARED and CREUTZER.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:00:52 +0000

I am catching up and have only just tackled this puzzle. I was expecting a fiendish “special” for the double public holiday, but was quite happy with the plain puzzle that we got. Thanks Azed, and Nick for the blog.

Just one quibble on the parsing of 30ac: I think this is better taken as (N(o) ROMEO)*, so that “loveless” means remove the only O from NO, rather than remove one of two Os from ROMEO.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:51:49 +0000

Well, ‘haw’= ‘horselaughs’ (lower case,one word.
So I thought you were explaining the upper case two words by quoting a real horse called Horse Laughs. If there isn’t one then I think the blogger’s (and my) query stands.

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:43:09 +0000

Why would there have to be a real horse?

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:58:22 +0000

10 ac
I understand the bloggers query here.I would understand Sidey’s comment if there is a real horse called Horse Laughs.Is there?

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 15:47:45 +0000

Thanks all
Little to comment on here.
34ac Isn’t the significant word ‘those’ to which one responds ‘which’?
Could be ‘fell’(double usage) ie farmers on the fells.
Could be ‘herd’, farmers who have a herd (arable farmers wouldn’t ‘stallfeed’ !).

By: Richard Heald

Richard Heald — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:35:17 +0000

Re 34Ac: in the cryptic reading, ‘herd’ is an imperative verb and ‘ill’ is an adverb. (In the surface reading, of course, they’re noun and adjective respectively.)

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:16:24 +0000

Sorry about the formatting fail, only herd should be in italics.

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:14:22 +0000

Morning Nick.

10a I think the capitalization is simply to suggest that there is a runner called Horse Laughs.
34a ‘Herd’ is out of place for the surface, it would be those farmers fatten herd /i> thus? but then it wouldn’t read well.
10d Reuters was founded by Mr Reuter so it’s fine for me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reuter