Comments on: AZED No. 2,093 Plain http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/22/azed-no-2093-plain/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 10:37:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/22/azed-no-2093-plain/#comment-198747 RCWhiting Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:25:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46613#comment-198747 Thanks all
Average difficulty.
Jenny Eclair is all over BBC Radio 4. News Quiz, Just a Minute, Woman’s Hour. She has been so for years since being (I think) the first female to win the comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Unlike her radio appearances,her live stand-up is often (always?) very crude (or as many on here prefer, risqué).
3d I do not really understand what is questionable here.’graduation’is ‘scale’immediately to me.

]]> By: aztobesed http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/22/azed-no-2093-plain/#comment-198727 aztobesed Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:55:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46613#comment-198727 It was when I saw ‘layers’ being mentioned prominently in Chambers that I thought I was home and hosed – but it’s all a touch pernickety anyway since scamble is given as dialect for shamble and shale and scale share closely related etymology. I’m sure you’re right, by the way, I’m not disputing the call. I still think it’s a bit of a chiz. No excuse for Town = T — No idea what my thinking was there.

]]> By: The Trafites http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/22/azed-no-2093-plain/#comment-198712 The Trafites Sun, 22 Jul 2012 10:50:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46613#comment-198712 aztobesed, yes, I tried to convince myself for a few minutes that ‘layers of shale’ could be a ‘graduation’, but wasn’t happy with it.

Nick

]]> By: aztobesed http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/22/azed-no-2093-plain/#comment-198707 aztobesed Sun, 22 Jul 2012 09:43:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46613#comment-198707 Well not so much a ‘guess’ at 3d as taking the ‘graduation’ to refer to ‘layers’ of ‘shale’. Like sidey I mis-parsed 29. My lazy note gave minus F (French) plus T (town) and a kind of elided clue. Not good but I often trip on these short ones. I couldn’t for the life of me untangle 1d – fixated on ‘cheese’ wordplay. Thanks for sorting them for me.

]]> By: sidey http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/22/azed-no-2093-plain/#comment-198692 sidey Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:21:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=46613#comment-198692 Thank you Nick. I am now kicking myself for failing to parse LOUT though the answer was obvious.

The scamble/shamble thing is a device I’ve seen Azed use before, often in annoying four letter answers. It’s one of his best devices.

I have a feeling that the 11.35kg definition is another Chambers ‘joke’ in the éclair vein. It would be a bit more amusing if they’d got the answer right though.

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