Comments on: Private Eye / Cyclops 481 – Beer thoughts

By: Will

Will — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:37:26 +0000

18 – ODD (non-corresponding) BALLS (nuts)

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:57:48 +0000

Gazza, you’re right about 14 across.
As to 24 across: COM… E is the main container, leaving MITTE, which is indicated by T(ime) inside TIME anag. I hope, anyway!

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:46:24 +0000

Cyclops (well, my inferior alter ego, Brummie) has written a new blog. It includes an account of how one of my clues led to the cancellation of an Eye reader's subscription. You can read it here.

By: Gazza

Gazza — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:52:37 +0000

In 12a I think the IN comes from hot (i.e. trendy).
If you take the final E of 24a as coming from E(nergy) there seems to be a letter too many. I thought that the anagram indicator had to be ‘bursting with energy’ for the clue to work, though it’s not very good.

By: jetdoc

jetdoc — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:24:55 +0000

Putting it on record…
Many thanks to Beermagnet for doing a couple of blogs that should have been my turn, during a rather difficult and stressful time for me. From mid-week onwards, life should return to what laughably passes for “normal” here.