Comments on: Guardian Cryptic 25841 Shed

By: scchua

scchua — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:09:04 +0000

Thanks all, for your contributions. And Giovanna@31, it’s my pleasure!

By: William Smith-Haddon

William Smith-Haddon — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:42:46 +0000

rhotician @35 – lovely! Nice bit of dog Carroll for a setter. Well done.

By: Shed

Shed — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 23:29:25 +0000

rhotician #35: criticism of that calibre I’ll take on the chin. Whether or not Audreus will follow your advice remains to be seen.

By: rhotician

rhotician — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:49:37 +0000

Audreus,

Speak roughly to your little boy,
When ‘take’ for R he clues.
He only does it to annoy.
We’d rather he amuse.

By: muffin

muffin — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:07:26 +0000

DunsScotus@33
I don’t think that different versions of Cage’s 4:33 are all that surprising – the point is that he invites us to listen to the “ambient” sounds (not that I am suggesting that multiple listening improves the experience).

By: DunsScotus

DunsScotus — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:53 +0000

Thanks to Shed and sschua; good fun as always. I know I’m late but I had to express my delight at the very concept of a medley of versions of Cage’s 4:33. Thanks Alan @ 18.

By: William

William — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:01:01 +0000

Mitz @27 I was thinking about Perfect Rigour for my Kindle – is it good?

By: Giovanna

Giovanna — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:21:18 +0000

Thanks, Shed and scchua, whose blogs always add such a good extra dimension. Hope you are enjoying the new year, too.

Particularly liked CHARLEMAGNE AND DOMESTIC.

Giovanna x

By: claire

claire — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:17:59 +0000

Nice puzzle (I like Shed anyway) but I wouldn’t have equated ‘contributor’ with ‘journalist’ though I can see how it could arise. To me a journalist is the professional and the contributor one who ‘contributes’, perhaps in the sense of an expert witness. My experience is in broadcasting, rather than print, though, so maybe there is a subtle difference. Not something I would lose sleep over, however.

By: Shed

Shed — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:16:31 +0000

Thanks all. No idea what happened to the tungsten in 7dn in some editions of the Grauniad: it was certainly there in the proof I read and the paper I bought today (in the afternoon, in Cambridgeshire).

Why do people always get so agitated by R = recipe = take? I’ve been taken to task for this before (which has brought out the imp of the perverse in me and encouraged me to reuse it). OK, it’s bit past its sell-by date, but it’s well-attested in any decent dictionary and still widely used in crosswords if nowhere else.