Comments on: Enigmatic Variations 1053: Making a Point by Ifor (& Brat)

By: Ifor

Ifor — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:18:39 +0000

Dave – thanks for the blog. I think you were moving last time you blogged an Ifor EV, by the way. Clearly something will have to give!

We’d tried to arrange matters so that “keeping track” might perhaps have been more straightforward than it first seems. In fact all entries with a pair of consecutive consonants (and only those entries) had w/p generating the extra A/E/I/O/U (between the first such pair where there was more than one) while vowel insertions needed in other clues all involved either the first or the last words.

As to St Andrews / Andrew’s – mea culpa.

Finally – SVARABHAKTI was as new to me as I suspect it was to many solvers. I happened to see it while thumbing through Chambers in search of a solution in another puzzle. As you say, an interesting word. I certainly wasn’t aware that linguistics drew on Sanskrit for technical terms.

Ifor

By: Dave Hennings

Dave Hennings — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:46:37 +0000

Thanks very much D. Obviously I found it difficult to keep track of everything as well!

By: D. Reynolds

D. Reynolds — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:34:13 +0000

I found it very difficult to keep track of all of the elements in this one.Your breakdown is excellent but you have a dropped ‘a’ and an extra ‘A’ in the same place [15dn]. The extra ‘A’ is needed for 17dn -
[scotsman] IAN takes the place of D [daughter] in HAND = HANIAN. So it’s JOH[a]NIAN.
I enjoyed this one [through gritted teeth].Thanks.
D. Reynolds.

By: John

John — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:32:37 +0000

JOHNIAN looks like it should be JO + IAN outside H[E]N, where hen and daughter are used as terms for women! It doesn’t help at all I know as TANKIA must work as you suggest. I didn’t see the puzzle, Dave, but St Andrews doesn’t have an apostrophe so I don’t know if that is an error or telling you something.