Comments on: Azed 2102 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/23/azed-2102/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 00:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Norman Hall http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/23/azed-2102/#comment-205950 Norman Hall Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:51:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49259#comment-205950 20d
I agree with ilancaron that the French for bay is BAIE and “(not English) French bay” is thus BAI.

But I don’t think AZED was telling us to use the French translation of bay that didn’t end with an ‘E’. It would be unreasonable of him to expect us to know both French words BAIE and BAI for the English BAY.

16d
Burbank is only a couple of miles from Hollywood and the film industry extends to both. Hollywood is in Los Angeles, but Burbank is a city in its own right. Presumably LA and Burbank have a common boundary.

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/23/azed-2102/#comment-205942 RCWhiting Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:29:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49259#comment-205942 ……………..and I parsed ‘intra’ exactly as ilancaron.

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/23/azed-2102/#comment-205941 RCWhiting Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:28:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49259#comment-205941 Thanks all
I found about 80% of this to be quite easy (for Azed).
There was enough in the 20% to make me think and I seem to have followed the blogger’s path closely.
I struggled to parse 20d and 22d. I also tried ‘tahrs’ first at 29ac.
Last in was ‘epos’ because of delay in entering ‘prelect’.

I thought today’s was very straightforward, except for 1ac!

]]> By: yvains http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/23/azed-2102/#comment-205936 yvains Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:34:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49259#comment-205936 I read 27 the ‘prescriptive’ way. Altogether, a nice crossword, considerably easier than today’s edition!

]]> By: ilancaron http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/23/azed-2102/#comment-205935 ilancaron Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:32:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49259#comment-205935 Indeed of course. I’ll update the blog — I was a bit bamboozled by the clue as I mentioned.

]]> By: yvains http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/09/23/azed-2102/#comment-205933 yvains Sun, 23 Sep 2012 08:30:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=49259#comment-205933 Thanks, ilancaron!

In 20, I think the intention was to use ‘baie’ minus E(nglish), baie being French for bay as in Biscay; however, ‘bai’ without the e = bay as in chestnut horse, so it works either way.

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