Comments on: Guardian Cryptic N° 25,789 by Bonxie

By: brucew_aus

brucew_aus — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:43:30 +0000

Oops … sorry !

By: brucew_aus

brucew_aus — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:42:19 +0000

Thanks Bonxie and PeterO
What a great puzzle – Bonxie usually daunts me, with his obscure words and misleading traps and didn’t start this one until Sunday. It took a few sittings and there were less unusual words than normal – BEESTINGS and KNISH were only new words for me.

He still nearly tripped me up with TRANSIT (had TRISTAN as my entry point) and SUEDE (in which I had SIEVE at first for some reason – and only found in my final parsing pass).

Found a lot of the clues with intricate and clever parsing which provided as much fun as the solving. Last in was SOUWESTER after finally cracking MR BEAN (had not heard of MR only MRI) and favourite was 9a.

Thanks again and glad that you got through Sandy Peter

By: brucew_aus

brucew_aus — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:40:21 +0000

He still nearly tripped me up with TRANSIT (had TRISTAN as my entry point) and SUEDE (in which I had SIEVE at first for some reason – and only found in my final parsing pass).

Thanks again

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 10:35:27 +0000

Hello Brendan NTO.

I see your line of enquiry, but the words in question are synonyms in The Chambers Thesaurus – under both headwords. I was thinking along the lines of ‘we”ll permit/ allow/ consent to the funding’, which turns out to be the sense for which they’re listed.

By: Brendan (not that one)

Brendan (not that one) — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:30:57 +0000

Paul B @ 27.

Definitely not the same in my opinion.

One means it’s been agreed. (Could even be an agreement that something is not permitted!!)

The other is something that is permitted. Definitely.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:13:54 +0000

… though there are two Es (so which ‘energy’ is it?), and ‘after’ is not adequately explained. I’ll give you that.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 02:09:18 +0000

Indeed. It’s agreed. It’s permitted.

By: Brendan (not that one)

Brendan (not that one) — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:46:55 +0000

Have just read my previous posting to see that the effort expended on the “Bonxie” has made me illiterate.

Where did the “where” come from.

Profuse apologies and many blushes!!!!

If only I were more intelligent!

By: Brendan (not that one)

Brendan (not that one) — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:32:25 +0000

Got all but some of the SE corner.

Never heard of BEESTINGS so was trying to work out how COLUSTRUM would fit? i.e. how where the obviouly correct answers entered wrong?!!!

Still don’t see how PERMIT can clue AGREE. Doesn’t work in my opinion! Still a rather clunky clue even if it does.

We had EAGRE fairly recently if I remember. (Gordius 27th July now I’ve checked.) But I failed to recall it.

In fact BONXIE used AGREES in his Sep 4th puzzle to get MEAGREST. (Almost Mozartian in his recycling )

Thanks to Bonxie and PeterO

By: Artie Fufkin

Artie Fufkin — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:06:04 +0000

Thanks peter. Having become a dad this year I knew colostrum, but had never heard its alternate names before.