Quiptic 1,280 by Pasquale

21 comments on “Quiptic 1,280 by Pasquale”

1. I enjoyed this – though I agree with you, Shanne, that DINGO feels a little odd. Hey ho.
   On my first run-through, I confidently put “scent” for 31A – which parsed perfectly well – but of course, had to be scribbled over later.
   I liked the surface for THEE, HOMER and CENTIMETRE.
   Thanks Pasquale and Shanne

2. I loved doing today’s quiptic.Not esoteric.Quite straight-forward.Thank you Shanne & Pasquale.

3. Thanks Pasquale and Shanne!
   DINGO
   It seems tricky. Does it say ‘put DINGO/’wild dog in’ here’ to mean ‘fill DINGO in these lights’?
   PAST
   side of street=T, dad is=PA’S. At/by T PAS. Does it work?

4. I understood Put wild dog in here (5) as it telling you to quite literally fill the clue cells with “wild (anag.) dog in”. Seems unusual though.

5. me@3
   If ‘at’ means on/above, my parse works (as it’s a down clue).
   Is there a context in which at=on/above?

6. Agree with the comments above about DINGO, but also about the rest of it being an enjoyable Quiptic. Only two unparsed before heading here (so I think we can overlook the delay 🙂 ), namely 20 and 21.

   Very welcome after last week’s rather more cryptic offering, too.

7. Liked this, everything went smoothly apart from “Readership” which took a minute or two…and for some reason wanted “gown” at 29d on first pass
   Like others, I found 12a strange, “put” seems superfluous…
   Thank you to Pasquale and Shanne

8. I wondered about DINGO too, although the intended answer was clear. Other than that, I agree that this was a well-crafted and well-judged Quiptic.

9. As I have never really understood what &lit means, I thought that DINGO might be one (i.e. the whole clue is the answer). It that doesn’t work, then like others, I am a bit puzzled, but had no problem filling it in. I have wondered on a few occasions recently if there should be an indicator for a shortened version of a word, even if it is fairly commonly used. Today AMMO and ARISTO both made me think of the point again. I have not seen anyone on the blogs raise the question so I suppose the usual answer – it’s in Chambers! – applies (but perhaps less so if it is in Chambers and marked as diminutive of the full word). I, too, didn’t parse HAITI. Thanks Shanne for that and the rest of the blog, and thanks Pasquale for some easy-going Sunday fun.

10. I thought 12a was very clever. “Put a word meaning wild dog in here” (i.e. at 12a), or “Put an anagram (wild) of ‘dog in’ here”. Two ways to get DINGO and two ways to place it.

    I also liked the internal rhyme of 21d – I NUN, I SON.

    Pasquale does a good job of crafting a puzzle that is both suitable for beginners and fun for post-beginners. And Shanne writes an excellent blog. Thanks to both.

11. Many thanks to Pasquale and Shanne. I agree this was better for new solvers than last week’s. I parsed DINGO the same way as cellomaniac @10.

    [For those who want to, here is Neptune from the Planets. It’s my favourite of them, but it is long…
    https://youtu.be/v4wuV14QlNM?si=zm1F_S88I1sbAemi ]

12. Enjoyable and not to taxing , favourite clue 21D. Need to remember french Qui – who.

13. Enjoyed this, although I think I found it a bit more challenging than others.

    READERSHIP took longer than it should have, as I was thinking of READERS for ages and trying to pair it with ‘her’ in some way – only saw the anagram when I had the answer.

    I also thought RELAPSING was quite tough – SING as a synonym for ‘carol’ was a stretch for me, but I think is fair.

    DINGO raised a great smile for me. I think it should be classed as a “clue as instruction” – put this answer here 🙂

    Thanks Pasquale and Shanne.

14. What Cellamaniac@10 said. I liked ASTEROID too

    Thanks Pasquale and Shanne

15. Enjoyable. Thanks both.
    Didn’t know Greta Garbo. Or a quire. Or spoor. But all very fair.

16. Lovely puzzle, great for beginners.

    Favourite: BONELESS.

    Thanks, both.

17. Found this one much easier than the Everyman, although I had to get help with CENTIMETRE.

18. DINGO
    I suggest that, rather like a double definition, the whole clue is an instruction subject to a double interpretation, i.e:
    1 Put the name of a wild dog here.
    2 Put an anagram of (DOG IN) here.

    Maybe not a conventional cryptic construction, but it seems ok for me.

    Does this work?

    Thanks both.

19. Found this tough but fair. Some were stabs in the dark that had to be checked, and I ended up revealing the last 7. Favourites were ASTEROID and IN UNISON.

    Thanks both.

20. Good one. Thanks for blog Shanne.

    What do people think about Bless as a synonym of Worship? When a priest blesses a churchgoer, are they worshipping them? When the churchgoer is on their knees worshipping the Almighty, are they blessing Him/Her?

21. For BLESS/worship, perhaps consider the Gloria in Excelsis: we praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee.

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