Comments on: Guardian Quiptic 687 Hectence http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 14:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/#comment-218827 scchua Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:45:30 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=54086#comment-218827 Thanks Robi. Well caught re 5d. Blog now corrected.

]]> By: Wanderer http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/#comment-218822 Wanderer Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:55:23 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=54086#comment-218822 [[Thank you, scchua, for taking the trouble to give the answers. Although I rarely comment on your picture quizzes (mostly because they defeat me), I always enjoy them.]]

]]> By: Robi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/#comment-218820 Robi Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:07:26 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=54086#comment-218820 Thanks Hectence and scchua.

Good puzzle; I particularly liked REPRIMAND and WELL-THOUGHT-OF. In the blog of 5, I think you have missed out the word ‘nap’ at the beginning. I think it might be: NAP reversal of (round) woven (containing) RIM etc

[[Too late for this, but thanks for the answers - saves me a lot of work!]]

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/#comment-218817 scchua Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:22:52 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=54086#comment-218817 [[Hi Wanderer, the answers are:
Pic#1: click here
Pic#2: click here and here
Pic#3: click here
Pic#4: click here]]

]]> By: Kathryn's Dad http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/#comment-218814 Kathryn's Dad Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:17:16 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=54086#comment-218814 Thanks, scchua, for the usual good blog. I needed you today to parse MIAOW (I comfort myself with the fact that if I had looked at it long enough, it would have come to me … but I got lazy and came here instead).

I have a friend who’s interested in learning how cryptics work, and she’s coming round for a glass of wine later in the month. I think I’ll print this one off and try to explain it all – there is a good variety of clue types and some nice wordplay, so it’s a good one to get started with. Maybe Hectence will launch her solving career. Whether wine and solving cryptics go together is another question.

]]> By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/#comment-218812 Derek Lazenby Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:29:37 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=54086#comment-218812 I was going to say that maybe some of the word play was over complicated for one of these, but then I finished in a reasonable time for me, so maybe it isn’t!

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/#comment-218781 scchua Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:32:27 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=54086#comment-218781 [[Hi, Wanderer, I'm afraid pic#3's link is more direct. It is something especially familiar to pigeon-fanciers.]]

]]> By: Wanderer http://www.fifteensquared.net/2013/01/14/guardian-quiptic-687-hectence/#comment-218772 Wanderer Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:50:58 +0000 http://www.fifteensquared.net/?p=54086#comment-218772 Thanks Hectence for some stylish fun, and to scchua for the blog. Particularly enjoyed REPRIMAND and the clever AP/Reuters clue.

[[scchua, I think your third picture is a nod to Baron Julius Reuter and his early system of delivering messages. The others, as usual, are beyond me.]]

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