Comments on: Inquisitor 1237: Revolutionary by Ploy

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:22:03 +0000

Yes – I enjoyed this one. (Difficulty 3 out of 5?) I finished this off in the departure lounge at Heathrow, so could check the details (ANDOVER, JOE MEEK, the anniversary) only when I reached my destination.

The CELT -> COLT/CENT wasn’t the only ambiguity for me. In 11d, I initially had “in a PIT” -> “… FIT” for the anagram indicator, then tried “… PET”, before finally settling on “… PIE”. And interestingly (deliberately?) the permuation of the incorrect letters to give TELSTAR was the same as that for the correct letters to give JOE MEEK.

Nice one Ploy, and thanks also to Duncan for the blog. (He clearly has lots of time to devote to it.)

By: chesley

chesley — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:45:15 +0000

Duncan – thanks for revealing all. I actually solved all the clues but couldn’t for the life of me get the PDM. Thanks also to Ploy for great (ultimately fruitless!) entertainment.

Like Hi @1, I fondly remember the original record – it was quite innovative then and The Tornadoes had several other releases of that ilk in the early 60s. Where has the time gone?

By: Hi of hihoba

Hi of hihoba — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:20:06 +0000

Yes, a very informative and interesting puzzle from Ploy and a nice colourful blog from Duncan.

I got the theme by an entirely different route from Duncan, though. I had found ATLANTIC on the bottom row and the position of the blob and the title “Revolutionary” (going round the earth) indicated a possible satellite – a slightly different interpretation from Duncan’s, both probably correct. I had EL, MS, EA and JT as the correction/misprint combinations and spotted TELSTAR as a possible anagram of the misprints. I Googled it, and the second entry is the Wiki article and the third is “Telstar: The Joe Meek story”, which triggered the search for OE and MS.

I knew (as anyone my age probably would) the musical connection, but had never heard of its composer. I hadn’t spotted the shapes of the sending and receiving stations as being dishes which I’m sure is correct and very clever!