Comments on: Guardian 25,811 – Brummie

By: Martymutt

Martymutt — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:06:51 +0000

5d pans out if the opposition is a swarm and the member is a rod*

By: mistley

mistley — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:54:00 +0000

Hi Lennie @41

Scorer is the definition as in composer

By: Lennie

Lennie — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:46:17 +0000

Spent an enjoyable hour on this one. But please can anyone tell me why “Scorer” is needed in 1 down?

By: Brendan (not that one)

Brendan (not that one) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:43:30 +0000

Well a second disappointing day for me. Worst Brummie ever IMHO (and I usually enjoy him/her?)

Poor surfaces I thought and very “contrived”.

First in was PSST and nothing much else after the first pass. Oh dear!!! Word play gave American in Paris quite soon after. This was typical of the puzzle as I solved most of the references backwards!! American in Paris to Gershwin etc.

Nobody has commented on the use of “sad” as an anagrind? Have I been abroad too long (2 weeks) or is it the alcohol?

Anyway it was finished I’m and looking forward hopefully to some amusement tomorrow.

Thanks to Andrew and Brummie. (Also to P Murray-Rust for the link which I will digest in a more sober state tomorrow. I do remember Unicode being introduced and had some professional interest in its mainframe implementation. Never did get round to reading a full article on it though!!! We shall see )

By: Martin P

Martin P — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:05:46 +0000

Peter Murray-Rust

“..There are some wonderful words in typography that might make an amusing themed crossword. They include Guillemet…”

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I think “wonderful” should have been like that: entre guillemets.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:18:00 +0000

Please, Peter Murray-Rest, don’t encourage them!

By: Peter Murray-Rust

Peter Murray-Rust — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:49:59 +0000

Thanks for the positive responses.

It is the cut-and-paste operation that destroys the encoding. Typing the numeric character reference in HTML will almost always work. So type:
Dvořák and you should get Dvořák on the blog. [Note: this system will corrupt HTML refrences such as & - you must use numbers.]

There are some wonderful words in typography that might make an amusing themed crossword. They include Guillemet, Interrobang, Macron, Obelus and Solidus, Tilde, and Pilcrow. Add characters such as Eth and Thorn …

By: Robi

Robi — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:36:42 +0000

Wanderer @31 – nice one!

By: Dave Ellison

Dave Ellison — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:20:53 +0000

GrandPuzzler at 29. No, you’re not the only one. But I have pointed this sort of thing out so often, I thought I would hold back today.

By: POS

POS — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:06:37 +0000

Yes Buddy, there are certain intersections where to turn right (we drive on the left) you have to get in the left lane (the streets are wide and possibly up to 3 lanes either way) and wait until the traffic clears (essentially when the lights turn amber) and then you turn ie you turn right from the further most left lane. It’s somewhat strange and a good reason to live in Sydney as do I.