Azed No. 2,590 Plain

12 comments on “Azed No. 2,590 Plain”

1. Thanks for the blog, CATCRACKER was in recently and I am sure it was the same place.
   DECTRA in my Chambers 93 although not in the 14 it said.
   Could not find DRICE anywhere but the meaning is obvious.
   For 2D not sure TINE=FORK ? could only find it as a single prong of a fork.
   HEARTSEASE was neat and TO-BRUSD and BE HEP TO are typical Azed, hard to believe they exist when you solve the clue and then you find them in Chambers.

2. Quite a few new words as usual for me. I liked PERNANCY for the surface and discovery of tonk which I’ve never heard anyone use here.
   DRICE is indeed in 2014 Chambers Roz. I checked after guessing as it was so close to dry ice. Also I can confirm that DECTRA isn’t in 2014. Again it’s a contraction I believe of Decca Trace. Tine is defined as a singular prong, but one of the definitions of fork is “a branch or prong”
   Thanks PeeDee

3. Roz – thanks for that, so DECTRA is in Chambers ’93 but no longer in Chambers 2014. Reading Wikipedia it seems that DECTRA was a relatively short lived system, only being around for a few years in the 1960s. I find it interesting how arbitrary the existence of “real” words and abbreviations is. It could just as easily have remained for another edition, or never have been included in the first place.

   You have a good point regarding 2dn. I wonder if have a mistake in the blog? Perhaps ART should be on a TINE (held by a fork perhaps) rather than inside tine. Personally I still see this showing a TINE inside ART, but there might be another way of looking at it.

4. I have belatedly read Tim_C’s comment @2: a fork being a prong (a tine) is much more straightforward. Please ignore my earlier comment.

5. With the extra two days before the blog, I’m even more likely to forget the solving process. My only note on my grid was that I couldn’t parse RIMU. Never thought of a primus stove.

6. Tough. I messed up early by putting TO BE HEP instead of BE HEP TO. which threw the SW corner out completely. Pleased though to get others like KRANS and DRICE.
   Don’t think I shall be joining you this week, having seen the blank grid! I shall look forward to the blog though.

7. Wow, just got my book tokens for being drawn out of the hat after sending in my solution to a non-comp. Any good suggestions for a book?
   I agree with Dormouse that the extra day means I’ve little recollection of solving this but just that it was, as ever, a treat..
   So glad to hear there is to be a belated celebration of Azed 50th year.

8. Congratulation KT! I can only suggest that you use the “free” book token get a book of the sort you would not normally read or buy, for some variation. Presumably if there was a book you really wanted or needed you could have bought it already.

   Re Tuesdays: sometimes I have already forgotten the puzzle by the time I write the blog. Personally I am just glad that people still read the blog now it is published on a Tuesday.

9. Re 24ac, ‘rough breathing’ was a diacritic mark in classical Greek, indicating that the word should be pronounced with an initial H – so ILL written with a rough breathing would be pronounced HILL. Thanks for the blog and to Azed.

10. I had SNICKERED instead of KNICKERED, misled by “giggle” in the clue, but of course couldn’t parse it. And I raised an eyebrow at BAG for old woman, a usage not given in Chambers.

11. Thanks Tim@2 I did not check it in the other direction.
    Well done Keith@7 , I saw K Thomas in the paper, thought it must be you.
    trish@6 , have a go. Draw a grid on paper and be brave with entries.
    I cut out the annotated clues and keep for Tuesday when i send the puzzle off.

12. Munro Maiden @9 – that’s fascinating, I had no idea about that at all. Thanks.

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