Comments on: AZED No. 2,123 ‘Misprints’

By: The Trafites

The Trafites — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 17:01:50 +0000

Agreed! I never noticed that, thank you Daron.

I guess the type-setters also got their knickers in a twist trying to decipher it.

Nick

By: Daron Fincham

Daron Fincham — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:03:03 +0000

The answer grid in today’s Observer is wrong I think. Ratoe for Ratoo, Pest for Poet and Avissment for Avisement.

By: The Trafites

The Trafites — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 12:58:42 +0000

Thanks all for the replies. BTW, as this was a bit difficult to keep track of what was what, here is an image of my 'notes': Azed 2123 notes (149kB) Nick

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:07:25 +0000

Re 9D, Nick’s ‘rede’ is clearly preferable and must be correct.

By: Bob Sharkey

Bob Sharkey — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:38:13 +0000

Great review, Nick. The colour coding is a great help in checking. For Norman @6 I thought the misprint at 9D had to be ‘rule’, an old meaning, intuitively understood but not expressly given in C., so hence the question mark. I had ‘lust?’ for 34A as preferable to ‘must’ which would just about work there too.

By: Norman Hall

Norman Hall — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:19:43 +0000

A most enjoyable puzzle. I completed the grid on the day it was published, though I couldn’t see what RUDE was a misprint of in 9D, and the misprints in the definitions are unchecked and uncheckable.

20 to 29 down were all ‘relatively’ easy giving SSINS for the end of the “non-dictionary compound”. Do you think AZED did this deliberately?

Hosni [Mubarak]

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:13:49 +0000

I forgot the nurses, I can imagine Azed had a right chuckle at that.

By: NormanLinFrance

NormanLinFrance — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 08:43:40 +0000

It was a tough one, and must have been hard to blog as well. Like RCW (and others, I suspect) I was held up for a while with the nurses, only twigging when I worked out the character assassins, but it all came out in the end.

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:54:02 +0000

Thanks all
Excellent blog.
I found this one very difficult. I often was confused as to which crossing letter was correct and which a misprint.
Due to using SEN instead of SRN in 33ac I failed to complete 26d and 25ac. All the others were sussed out but with varying degrees of comprehension!
Really enjoyable.

By: bridgesong

bridgesong — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 07:21:33 +0000

Well done, Nick; this one defeated me, so I’m very glad it wasn’t my turn to blog it. I can see that even some of the ones I thought I had solved have turned out to be wrong!