Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 683 / Pan

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:45:42 +0000

Thanks, B&J. The Quiptics from Pan – and indeed the other setters – are usually well set. Good for beginners but also offering a quick solve for more experienced folk. URCHIN is a lovely example of a Quiptic clue, I think. But people from BAKEWELL will always call it Bakewell Pudding, for obvious reasons.

Fine puzzle from Pan; thank you.

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:52:57 +0000

Thanks Robi@2. I will make the necessary changes. I (Joyce) did wonder about the ‘s when I wrote the blog.

I was also going to look up URIN in the dictionary until Bert realised that it was hidden in the clue!

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:49:28 +0000

Entertaining puzzle; thanks Pan.

Thanks Bertandjoyce; a small point, but in 1d and 16d I think the anagrind is ‘is ['s] outrageous’ and ‘is unfit,’ otherwise it seems to me that the ‘s’ would have to be included as fodder. Unbelievably, I missed the ha for URCHIN; I thought the church (CH) intervened in ‘URIN,’ whatever that meant!

I didn’t know WISEACRE, which is perhaps a little unusual for a Quiptic, although clearly clued.

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:36:29 +0000

Yup, that will do. Ta all.