Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 686 / Nutmeg

By: Roald

Roald — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:53:40 +0000

Since I’m certainly not one of the ‘usual suspects’ – and also fairly new to cryptic crosswords, I’ll
give Dave what he asks for.

I found this quiptic rather hard, only managing about two thirds. It didn’t help that I weren’t acquainted with the River Ure, nor with the Jackass bird (that definition of ‘jackass’ isn’t in my Chambers Dictionary either).

That said, I enjoyed the clues in this quiptic, even the ones I couldn’t solve. Most of them made me go “oh yes, now I get it, why didn’t I see that?” when I read the solution, which is much better than “huh, is that a word?”.

Thanks Nutmeg and Dave

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:27:39 +0000

Many thanks, Big Dave & Nutmeg

Like others, I found it somewhat tougher than the Rufus but very enjoyable.

By: flashling

flashling — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:32:29 +0000

Not a quiptic usual suspect, but I found it harder than the Rufus today, nothing too outrageous so quite suitable for the quipic. Thanks BD and Nutmeg

By: stanXYZ

stanXYZ — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:35:26 +0000

“Usual Suspects?” No-one ever seems to comment on the Quiptic!

Once again the Quiptic is more difficult than the Monday Rufus!

By: Robi

Robi — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:20:42 +0000

Entertaining crossword, thanks Nutmeg. Good variety of clues. Thanks Big Dave; I particularly liked TEE SHOT, INVOICE [split as (2,50)] and SPECTRE.