Azed No. 2,560 Plain – Competition Puzzle

11 comments on “Azed No. 2,560 Plain – Competition Puzzle”

1. Thanks for the blog. Top left a lot of obscure words, two not in my Chambers 93 , 11AC and 13 AC but obvious once I had the letters from the down words.
   27AC laurel = BAY then the anagram.
   23D the O and the K should be removed separately as in 1AC

2. I think 1a should come from ViAnD (no final E)

3. Roz – thanks for spotting the error in 27, fixed now. I agree in 23dn the O and K are being removed separately, but unlike 1ac I can’t see any indication of this in the clue. Can you see a reason why Azed specifies this in one clue but not the other?

4. Thank you Shirl – I had slipped into French for a bit there.

5. I think it is just a lapse, but what do I know. You cannot really remove OK because “OK ” is not in the word as such.
   Have a safe journey, do not worry at all about the blog today, we can help each other. The Azed blog is “live” all week so you can answer queries on other days.

6. Well, all I can remember of this is that I completed it fairly early Sunday night, a welcome change after the previous couple of weeks.

7. I echo the first part of Dormouse’s comment @6: all I can remember is that I completed it! Hadn’t heard of ORLISTAT; everything else seemed to go in OK. Thanks to Azed and PeeDee.

8. 15 ac – does it need to have an “or”? You could have a clue of Eg dal creating trouble or Trouble for Indian village, so why not link them together? 1ac/23dn: this does seem to be anomalous. I can only suggest that the combination of “not” and the capitalised OK can simply mean “remove O and K”, whereas “I’d omitted” by itself would strongly imply leaving out two letters together. Possibly a specious argument 🙂

9. My first Azed Plain.

   Some really interesting new to me words – made extensive use of the Chambers app on my phone. THREEPIT was probably the first among equals – it took ages because I couldn’t believe how simple the solution was (tiny typo in the blog btw, ‘THRE’ for THREE.

   I’m guessing it is an AZED thing — hyphenated solutions like 27A and 19D aren’t shown in the enumeration. That held me up — I could see the BAY at the beginning of the 27A, and the LEARNT anagrind but couldn’t make the leap while looking for a single 9-letter word.

   I liked ‘GRAM’ just the way it is. Fascinating to find all those other defs.

   Never seen SC for to wit — some kind of Latin or legalese (maybe both?)

   Thanks AZED and PeeDee.

10. Epee Sharkey@9 welcome to the world of Azed, if you finished this I am very impressed. It took me two years to learn how to do Azed , no blogs in those days, had to wait two weeks for the answers and brief notes in the Observer.
    A few answers to your queries – SC is Latin ” scilicet ” or namely , turns up quite often.
    Hyphens are never shown.
    Any two ( or three…) word answers, Azed will say how many words but not the length of each, just total length.
    In the Observer it will always say – The Chambers Dictionary (2014) is recommended. Azed will indicate any solutions that are not in this dictionary.
    I have a Chambers 93 which hardly differs to the 2014.
    Azed 2561 is currently “live ” , I am sure you can find it online, the blog will be here on Sunday.

11. Thanks very belatedly for the welcome and the answers to queries Roz.

    I actually have a physical Chambers 2014 which I acquired some years back in the belief it was an absolute reference for the Guardian puzzles. Unfortunately that isn’t the case (maybe it was once). Great to see that it does apply to Azed, it gives some kind of solidity to the search.

    I did try Azed 2561 , boy that was hard, and I got only about halfway through. I’ve completed another one since, definitely an enjoyable challenge.

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