Comments on: Azed 2108/What? No Scots?

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 23:37:13 +0000

In Collins too.

By: Chris Weeks

Chris Weeks — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:17:00 +0000

Sight = a great deal.
Thanks Paul. Not used by me but I see Chambers give it as (inf.) so I should have checked.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:24:20 +0000

Thanks all
I found this above average in trickiness for an Azed.
Possibly caused by Ilan’s reported switch to classical languages. Certainly my last in was ‘iure mariti’.
Favourite was 12d. Considered 3 meanings for ‘Curry’ but not the fourth.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:25:51 +0000

It certainly means ‘great deal’ as in ‘my friend Dinsdale is a sight more afraid of my pet hedgehog Norman than he is of being run over by a herd of mammoths’.

I don’t see how TRITON can be &lit.

By: Chris Weeks

Chris Weeks — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:49:03 +0000

Much more accessible than usual (classical instead of Scots) but for

28 ac can anyone explain why “sight” means “a great many”?

By: Norman Hall

Norman Hall — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:19:43 +0000

I understood all the clues except 21ac.

I discovered that Triton is a Marine Hull Cleaner, which is applied to ships literally as opposed to figuratively.
…but I don’t know whether this product is particularly well known in the nautical world.

Also, Triton is a mollusc. Does Triton, like other molluscs, slow down ships, requiring their hulls to be cleaned?

Is the clue an &lit?

I didn’t think of Rit. = slowing down, so Azed ‘got me’ anyway.

By: ilancaron

ilancaron — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:14:24 +0000

@pelham: thanks guv for the PA etymology.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:11:59 +0000

Andrew@4 : quite right. Apologies to both of you.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:26:11 +0000

Pelham, I think you also meant Ilan, not Andrew

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:06:06 +0000

Correction to 2: Of course, I meant governor not governer.