Comments on: Guardian 25,800 – Puck

By: rowland

rowland — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:44:56 +0000

Sorry to hear RCW. I hope you get well soon.

Cheers
Rowly.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:16:14 +0000

Giovanna & Mitz
Thanks.
My amatory organ has been failing to operate efficiently recently (as do most bits of me nowadays).
Most of the service was provided by a superbly competent and pleasant cardiac sister. It struck me that over quite a short period medics have given up some substantial parts of their exclusivity which can now be performed by nurses. My recent several experiences suggest that this is a welcome development.

By: Mitz

Mitz — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:52:49 +0000

Thanks Puck and manehi.

Very late to even start today,and so even later to finish and everything has already been said. Loved that we had a geographical theme that wasn’t simply looking for place names: took me far too long to think of rhubarb – my only excuse being that I thought 2 might be “flambeed”, which bothered me as there was no “d” in what seemed to be the fodder.

Great stuff, Puck – more of the same please.

PS: RCW – hope it was just a routine visit and that all is well with you.

By: Giovanna

Giovanna — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 22:40:31 +0000

Thanks, Puck and manehi.

What a treat to come back to after a Graun. drought!

Loved the theme and rhubarb is a favourite in our house.

I agree with RCW that it is a good day for the G. Crossword.Good luck btw.

Giovanna x

By: Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:33:37 +0000

Aine sounds like Onya, or Anya you know.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:28:17 +0000

Not going to lie – I’m a little proud to have made it to the end of this one without helps!

A brilliant puzzle (says the man from West Yorks…)

Thanks both!

By: Gervase

Gervase — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:40:08 +0000

Looking over this again, I found that I had parsed MATHS slightly differently from manehi.

I interpreted ‘not 1 his’ as HIS without the I: not having I at the centre makes this ‘not EGOCENTRIC’. Clever clue; pity that EGOCENTRIC was 1d, which means that the subtlety can be easily missed.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:21:18 +0000

Thanks all
I solved this while sitting in a hospital waiting room between several treatments and discussions (one sister apologised for interrupting my crossword!)
This was perfect for the purpose, tricky enough to last through the whole session. I failed to parse just 4,25 but I didn’t try too hard as it became more and more evident that we were in ‘God’s own country’ (I married into the ‘modest’ ranks of Yorkies).
Last in was ‘cub scouts’ and too many enjoyable ones to name.
I did have John@14′s printing error but it was pretty obvious that it was just a cut off at the bottom of the page.
A good day for The G. crossword.

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:58:18 +0000

After the first pass I was rehearsing a whinge about too many cross references. But, having expected to get stuck, it didn’t happen! Doh! How can you start a “let’s wind every one up” argument when the evidence does a dissappearing trick? I shall have to find something more boring to do instead.

Harder end crosswords can be just a slog, but this was quite fun, so well done Puck.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:17:47 +0000

I found this enjoyable, but very tricky.
I couldn’t explain scalene or boron properly, so thanks for the explanations. And I too had never heard of the name Aine.
Thanks Puck.