Comments on: Independent 8136 by Tyrus (Saturday Prize Puzzle 10 November 2012)

By: OzBron

OzBron — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:39:54 +0000

Thanks for all the mental workout! (Solution 26A should be SUP, not SUN.)

By: Tyrus

Tyrus — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:57:47 +0000

Thanks to mc for the blog and to others for the comments. Sorry to those who found it too difficult.

Not quite sure how the Princess Di clue – which makes no reference to her ‘accident’ – is distasteful. And PB’s appearance in no way suggests approval or otherwise – he merely fits the theme.

mc’s parsing of 23d was correct – never heard of the Data-Analysing Robot thingy.

ewwo: think ‘take’ for ‘r’ is a pretty common crossword usage.

By: ewwo

ewwo — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:47:47 +0000

Thanks mcrapper at #3. seen recipe for r many times but this use of take is new for me. Shouldn’t the setter give us some hint he’s using a translation? Oh well, never mind.

By: kloot

kloot — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 17:36:52 +0000

Found this hard, hard and with dollop of hard. In the end I gave up-something I don’t like doing. I had numerous gaps which I had guesses for which were all right. Maybe I should have trusted my instincts more.

By: Polly

Polly — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:49:59 +0000

Sidey at 5: true, but wikipedia distinguishes between the normal spelling with two Rs (as you have it) and the film D.A.R.Y.L. (abbreviated form of Data-Analysing Robot Youth Lifeform), in which the central character happens to be a boy. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.A.R.Y.L.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:47:16 +0000

Great crossword I thought. Thanks Tyrus!

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:46:46 +0000

“I’m no royalist, or Diana sympathist – I just feel he should be left to lie under whichever ‘rock’ he has crawled.”

Blimey… Pontificate much?

By: sidey

sidey — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:23:24 +0000

Daryl can be a boy or girl according to Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darryl

Despite the internet I still have no idea who Mr Butler is, at least his obscurity isn’t associated with soccer, which is nice.

By: Ian SW3

Ian SW3 — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:53:16 +0000

The only Daryl I’ve ever heard of is Hannah, who is not a boy. The SE corner was pretty hopeless for me, but thanks to blooger and setter.

By: mc_rapper67

mc_rapper67 — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 12:51:11 +0000

Thanks, Polly at #1.

To ewwo at #2, ‘r’ can be used as an abbreviation for the Latin recipe, imperative form of recipere meaning ‘to take, or receive’. I assume that is where the English word ‘recipe’ comes from: ‘take two eggs, some flour, milk, etc.’?

Looks like 23D caused a few problems, glad I wasn’t the only one!…