Comments on: Independent Crossword 8052 by SCORPION (Saturday Prize Puzzle 04-08-2012)

By: Graham Pellen

Graham Pellen — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 04:37:49 +0000

Agree with twencelas@17. A marked superfluity of scornful comments by Paul B.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:15:29 +0000

Unlucky re Rand/ Peters continuum Polly. With your other remarks I concur entirely.

By: Polly

Polly — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:37:39 +0000

Oo-er, red face here; but I’m not the only member of my family to have made that mistake. Thanks, nms – it just goes to show one’s never too old to learn something new.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:17:05 +0000

Polly at #20, I don’t think that is right re Rand and Peters – they are two different people.

By: Polly

Polly — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:39:37 +0000

Just to add to the sum total of human knowledge, Mary Rand and Mary Peters are one and the same, Peters being her married name; that much I remember from my teenage years. Although I take no interest in athletics I had heard of all these gold medallists, and find it hard to believe that anyone who keeps his/her eyes and ears open to current affairs and popular culture inter alia (surely the kind of person who does crosswords) could fail to recognize at least one – for instance, Linford Christie: the man who (ahem) gave rise to the learned judge’s question ‘What is a lunchbox?’ and Eric Liddell: subject of the film ‘Chariots of Fire’.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:51:49 +0000

When I post here (exclusively, as a matter of fact), I use one ID, rather than a multitude: and you also know who I am, having met me. Re current debate, I simply found certain remarks anomalous.

By: flashling

flashling — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:37:50 +0000

Indeed PB you seem to be trying for olympic gold in trolling the crossword sites, I bow to to the master.

Actually normally I try to just post reasonable helpful stuff, but Tees seems to need to taunt at times, he seemed quite a normal-ish chap at the S&B when we met.

By: twencelas

twencelas — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:02:04 +0000

Paul B – I’m all in favour of free speech, but you are in serious danger of crossing the line between pertinent comment and being abusive. I’d rather not resort to censorship.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:14:18 +0000

That’ll be today’s big surprise then.

But with the extra info you give @ #15, I’m even more baffled: why does a first-class solver of long experience, rarely defeated by the like of Nimrod and Anax, resort to filling in puzzle answers from a downloaded list, regarding the clues as ‘superfluous’?

It’s like Oliver Reed settling for a shandy.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:09:07 +0000

Well, I’ve probably been solving even longer than Dormouse, and there are not many puzzles or setters that defeat me, Nimrod and Anax included, or Scorpion for that matter. But for this particular puzzle my thoughts are almost exactly the same as those of Dormouse @12.