Comments on: Guardian Prize Puzzle 25,772 by Araucaria

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:30:24 +0000

Re #18, quoting from … ?

A difficult man to pin down.

By: rhotician

rhotician — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 23:45:33 +0000

‘Attempt to score a goal at tennis?’

This is typically Araucarian. It’s a sort of a kind of cryptic/allusory double definition.
Attempt=shot. Goal=drop – along with penalty and the converted try one of the goals that can be scored at rugby.
Shot, as in “good shot”, may be applied to many ball games including football, cricket, golf etc.
The word is this sense is not really applicable in rugby.
In tennis, of course, drop shot is a specific kind of stroke.

Not one of his better efforts.

By: sidey

sidey — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:34:17 +0000

But that applies to almost everyone who posts here RCW.

By: Biggles A

Biggles A — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 21:34:05 +0000

PeeDee @ 17. You are right of course. Sorry about that.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 19:20:17 +0000

Neil @15
Sorry to disappoint. “You’re a hard man to pin down”.
You are of course wrong. Just follow Paul B.’s maunderings and you will know that I am a stupid idiot (I quote) whose every comment is ridiculous. There you are, totally pinned.

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:11:23 +0000

Biggles A – “ghost pepper” would work, but doesn’t have the same posessive quality as “Pepper’s Ghost”.

By: PeeDee

PeeDee — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:48:30 +0000

I couldn’t get 4,11 until I had nearly all of the letters, but then ROOST seemed obvious.

By: NeilW

NeilW — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:54:03 +0000

So, RCW, my confident assertion @1 was wrong! You’re a hard man to pin down.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:33:01 +0000

Thanks all
Rather slow to start but a very rapid finish.
Last in and favourite (roost) because of delightfully vague definition.
Another favourite was ‘Patagonia’ ; I think maybe the ‘somewhat’ indicates its geographical location.
Not a great prize puzzle.

By: chas

chas — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:52:12 +0000

Thanks to PeeDee for the blog.

I am another who failed to spot the extra O in 13.
I also disliked ROOST.

Thanks to PeeDee for explaining why I had the right answer for 23: I had searched, without joy, for an audiologist with name DREAR