Comments on: Azed 2113

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:34:52 +0000

BLAES turns on the afterthought in the noun definition. Does ‘often blae in colour’ mean ‘the colour blae’ (n), or that the clay or shale is often blae. I think we have to give Azed the benefit of the doubt (sort of).

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:55:47 +0000

John
I cannot see much wrong with ‘aber’.
‘to cut reversed collar’ could be taken as instructions in order ie cut the ‘to’ from ‘rebarto’ leaving ‘reba’ then reverse it.
‘blaes’ does have the very small problem which you have noted.
Of course I knew that ‘re-integrate’ did not fit the grid. I was wondering,outside this puzzle, why redintegrate was ever coined when reintegrate exists and follows the usual pattern of ‘re’ = again whereas I do not recall any other example of ‘red’ = again.

By: John

John — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:19:17 +0000

He couldn’t have used ‘re-integrate’ because it doesn’t have enough letters. My little electronic thing from Chambers irritatingly counts a hyphen as a letter, but crosswords don’t.

Is anyone going to explain to me what I’ve missed in 12ac or 11dn?

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:15:38 +0000

Thanks all
I had a quite slow start to this one but got going with ‘viva’.
After that i thought it was average for difficulty.
I liked 28ac and 34ac.
9d held me up, the cryptic was fairly clear but ‘redintegrate’ is an odd word, why not just ‘re-integrate’.
I am sure I have seen the ‘lock-keeper’ = ‘hairnet’ somewhere before.
The ‘sourcold’ entry is a real oddity.