Comments on: Azed 2109

By: sidey

sidey — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 05:30:36 +0000

Possibly it was thrown away before the invention of cigarettes.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:26:11 +0000

In the Chambers entry for ‘return’ what does “(orig. refuse)” mean?

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:21:02 +0000

Thanks all
I solved 1ac immediately which did rather open the top half;but not enough to spoil the usual challenge.
Last in was ‘reprised’ and I failed to parse ‘bakkie’ (thanks
Andrew).

By: duncanshiell

duncanshiell — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:11:04 +0000

Thanks to sidey @ 1 and Andrew @ 3 for pointing out my errors and omissions. Their suggestions make far more sense than my rather weak attempts for those two clues.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:41:49 +0000

Thanks Duncan. The homophone in 2d is of “baccy” (tobacco), and “returns” is “a light-coloured mild tobacco”.

By: Norman Hall

Norman Hall — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:25:16 +0000

Is anyone fully satisfied by the way they have parsed 2 down (BAKKIE)?
I’m not.

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 02:37:48 +0000

6d, I wrote this down as it made me laugh. If everyone’s favourite alien ET [had J] initially, it would become JET, a plane.

I thought this was Azed at his best.