Inquisitor 1346: Strides by Schadenfreude

17 comments on “Inquisitor 1346: Strides by Schadenfreude”

1. Re 37A, I think SKILLING = SKILLION Chambers) an outhouse (or shed, I guess) in Australia so Victorian i.e. from their state, Victoria..

2. A top-drawer puzzle, but I’m glad I’m currently a man of leisure as it took up a fair chunk of time. Worth it in the end of course, but for a while there I thought I was beaten.

   I also got ARM and STRONG early and my first thought was Tour de France winners, which had me scratching my head to find a word at 8D that started with TADOR, to go with the CON. Then when I found YOUNG at 1D/1A I wondered about royal nicknames – Strongarm and The Young seemed familiar and Bean … at a stretch! It wasn’t until I found ALDRIN that the Doh! moment came and things became marginally easier.

   My only slight complaint is that it seemed a bit Scottish-dialect heavy (and regional-shed obsessive too).

   Thanks to kenmac for the blog (though did you have one too many on 2D?) and Schadenfreude for an outstanding puzzle.

3. Ah, I thought I’d sorted out all the parsings, but I remember now there was one I wasn’t sure of, and I’m still not. How does ‘coots at Oban’ give ANKLED? I originally had it as ‘with boots at Oban’, assuming that ankled was Scottish dialect for wearing boots, which gave me a confusing B somewhere after the moonwalk.

4. OPatrick@3:

   Look under CUIT in Chambers. I too had the extra B for ages, leading to much head scratching.

5. I found this a really enjoyable puzzle – liked the way the clashes spelt the walkers (and now I know there were 12 moon walkers). Unlike others I didn’t get Armstrong until later as my original clashes had 3 letters from each clue clashing and I wrongly assumed they’d all be like that. Put a couple of the 6 letter ones into google and it all became clear.

6. Schadenfreude’s set loads of puzzles lately and I’ve managed to complete very few of them so I was rather pleased to get to the end of this one. I think my PDM came with ALDRIN which is a very distinctive name and immediately put it into the “Men on the Moon” camp. I struggled to find Number 6 for a while as RE-ADD seemed plausible in the place of the correct READMIT, but otherwise managed to make it through a Schadenfreude in a rare triumph.

7. Thanks kenmac. The coot spelling of cuit was too obscure for my otherwise invaluable Scots-English dictionary.

8. I really enjoyed this puzzle. It took a little while for the penny to drop which, for me, came from the clashes in the cell numbered 32 to give IRWIN. This then helped with some of the more intractable clues, but few. if any, were “write-ins”. All in all, I found it the right balance between cluing and the thematic material. Thanks Schadenfraude and to kenmac for the blog.

9. This can be quite useful at times for those Scots words.

   http://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/

   I entered ‘ankle’ and got ‘cuit’.

10. Strangely, I rumbled the theme almost immediately, as I solved ARMAMENTS and STRONGHEAD first, entirely randomly. It didn’t make completing the puzzle any easier-in fact if anything it may have even made it harder, as I found myself unable to focus on the clues without looking for the constituent parts of the themesters.

    I can’t recall doing a Schadenfreude puzzle I haven’t enjoyed, and this was no exception, thanks

11. A hugely enjoyable puzzle I thought, presenting a real variety of challenges without being or feeling overly complex.

    It also provided us with a good general knowledge reference point (Armstrong, Aldrin) acting as an inroad to the puzzle’s theme and hence the rest of the wordplay. Yes, I did have to use Wiki to learn the other ten names after getting, like others, Aldrin first. I couldn’t recall the names of any of the ten but can always remember Collins, the third (orbiting) astronaut on Apollo 11, from my original souvenir plate.

    Thanks very much Schadenfreude and kenmac for the blog.

12. A very accomplished puzzle, as you always expect from Schadenfreude.

    Although it eventually defeated me(actually, a couple of the non-thematic entries let me down – not the Moonwalkers!) it was most enjoyable.

    Thanks to setter and blogger.

13. When we saw that the setter was Schadenfreude, we knew we were in for a treat. We worked out Armstrong fairly early on and guessed that it could be Moonwalkers. We were determined not to check anything else until we were absolutely stuck!

    Thanks kenmac for the excellent blog and many thanks to Schadenfreude! How do you do it?!

14. We enoyed this puzzle a geat deal. Like OPatrick a Tour de France detour suggested itself with Armstrong but it all fell into place. Like last week we had one solution from wordplay alone. I’m sure I’m about to kick myself very hard but could some kind soul explain why ‘winger’ is a soldier’s favourite ? Many thanks to setter and blogger.

15. Doh ! Never mind. Penny finally dropped.

16. Lovely puzzle. Penny dropped early for me too – thank you drinkable, thank you Aldrin – so I thought I would try and complete it without the help of the web. Good luck with that. Even with the full list of moon walkers, I found the last few a struggle.

17. Just clearing the backlog that accumulated while I was on holiday.

    I must say, this puzzle from Schadenfreude restored my faith in the old master.

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