Comments on: Guardian 25,786 – Gordius

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:24:00 +0000

“With anger” or “irate” could equally be used to describe her humour before she killed him.
(posted with humour)

By: mikewglospur

mikewglospur — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:42:14 +0000

Just read through all the comments above. Surprised no-one has queried/criticised 12A.
How can “irate” be defined as “anger”?
If it’s supposed to be = “with anger”, please provide me with an example of a sentence where this could be substituted for the word “irate”.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:25:56 +0000

Sounds a bit smelly, Andrew.

By: Andrew Barton

Andrew Barton — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:13:46 +0000

I thought Jones as an indication for DOW was totally unsound. It only works if you think that Dow was the first name of Mr Jones.

In general I was very disappointed with this crossword, it was a lot easier and a lot sloppier than Gordius’ usual products.

By: brucew_aus

brucew_aus — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:15:18 +0000

Thanks Gordius and UY
Cup Day took preference and congrats to the Irish who bred the first seven horses to finish! Only really focused on this today and thought that this was one of his best puzzles – certainly did not find it easy.

Knew about the things called Rawlplugs but did not know their name. Parsed GRAMPUS slightly differently by finding a puffer was the name for a small porpoise and tenuously linked that to a dolphin like grampus.

Didn’t go down the presidential ROMNEY path but still took some time to settle on WETLAND.

All in all a good work out.

By: chas

chas — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:43:23 +0000

William @22 thanks for that. I now agree that Gordius was perfectly correct where I had initially thought to condemn him for an error.

By: g larsen

g larsen — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:39:15 +0000

I whizzed through this and was surprised not to find more comments like NeilW’s ‘Tuesday is the new Monday’. Much easier than Rufus yesterday. I can’t recall ever finding a puzzle easier than RCW apparently did – a red-letter day indeed.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:22:35 +0000

That’s a very fair expression of your opinion,Derek.
Of course,I do not confuse easy with poor; if it doesn’t puzzle me (easy) then it’s a failure as a puzzle. Very straightforward.

BTW I have always found the left more satisfying than the right!
So I agree with your last sentence.

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:55:21 +0000

RCW it’s because with the easy ones you continue confuse easy with poor, which are only equivalent some of the time. Your comments re hard are spotted, rest assured, and when one day you call a real stinker “good” just becasue it is hard, no doubt some one will comment. It won’t be me because I will have given up and found something else to do.

Interesting that you went RHS (write in) followed by LHS (harder). I went LHS (mostly write in) followed by RHS (harder).

Thank heaven for differences, life would be so dull otherwise.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:17:49 +0000

Galeraman @26
Don’t be surprised!
I reckon that I praise as many for being a good challenge as I do criticise for being a write-in.
Somehow people seem to spot (and object to) the latter and ignore the former. Ah well.