Comments on: Inquisitor 1239: MP’s Fancy by Samuel

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:46:18 +0000

We were really pleased to finish this one. We needed to google the artists to find the Bond connection first of all and then lots of dead ends trying Bond characters or films before one of us noticed the possibility of Fleming. More googlng and the other writers were found. Then the other member of the pair wondered about 007 being found in the grid – Faulks was found and the rest is now history! The other writers were all new ones to us both, so thanks to wiki are due.

Thanks for the blog Kenmac and Samuel for a memorable puzzle!

By: HolyGhost

HolyGhost — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:11:54 +0000

Thank goodness this was fairly accessible – I tackled the puzzle on a flight to Bangkok (no dictionary, no internet) and, after much judicious guesswork, finally finished (almost!) on a raft house on the River Kwai when, by the light of a kerosene lamp & sipping a cold beer, I spotted FAULKS in the shape of a 7, which confirmed my suspicion of BENSON and HIGSON.

DEAVER & MARKHAM had eluded me (and I was pretty vague on the particular songs/films associated with the artists), but I felt pretty chuffed to have got that far unaided. So thanks to Samuel for several enjoyable hours, and a very neat construction.

And thanks to Ken for clearing up YU = jade, and the rest of the blog. And MP = Moneypenny is my best guess too – so I suspect that’s right.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:07:33 +0000

Fell at the final hurdle in this. Filled in the grid, worked out the Bond connection (although I had to google Tom Jones, Wings and Shirley Bassey to get it) and then failed to find any of the hidden names in the grid. Went off down the wrong track thinking John Barry might be in there somewhere, and never even thought of Bond writers.