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Usual Friday afternoon thanks C, have a good weekend.
cJ
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thanks cruciverbalist
first glance there seems a lot going on here from a setter last seen before my time as a listener solver
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Once again, many thanks for the link, Cruciverbalist.
Lavatch is one of the setters over on the Spectator. He's an 'irregular' though, only contributing maybe 4 or 5 puzzles a year.
I don't recall him setting for the Listener before. His puzzles are usually enjoyable so I'm looking forward to seeing how I get on with this.
Fairly hefty preamble for starters, however!
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Thanks for researching, Midazolam.
That was quite a while ago but well worth the wait.
As I'd hoped, this latest was a very fine puzzle and most enjoyable.
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yes a nice challenge incorporating letters latent and a dual entry system, but i am not sure there should have been 7 proper nouns not found in chambers
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Although I found this pretty difficult, I never came to one of those grinding halts that require a moment of inspiration to surmount.
Thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle, and was sidetracked a couple of times whilst googling to confirm a couple of those proper nouns! One was a first name not confirmed in Chambers - something that I moaned about a few weeks ago.
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Extremely well engineered puzzle, marred only by a couple of iffy clues and the afore-mentioned plethora of proper nouns. Nevertheless on the whole most enjoyable.
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Talking of iffy clues, does anyone understand the wordplay to 36 across?
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36 across. If you add the extra letter to your answer you'll have a word synonymous with one of the words in the clue. The one I couldn't make much sense of was 37 across.
I felt there were a couple of dubious definitions that I couldn't find supported in Chambers and some 'unofficial' extraneous words.
It's a very engaging puzzle, though so far I haven't seen what 13-letter name replaces one of the rows (which I have identified). I'm also puzzled that one of the rows would reveal a relevant author with some appropriate changes, but there's nothing in the preamble to suggest that will happen. It strikes me that a lot more needs to change before the theme's last line will appear. I'll give it further close study tomorrow.
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Sorry for the typo. Of course I meant 37 across.
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i just assumed it was a dual definition to 37 across
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37ac - marine's lead is an anagram of the answer plus another word in the clue.
Clever puzzle though I found the preamble confusing and unhelpful. But a neat idea - you'll enjoy it when you spot it.
I also thought there were rather too many proper nouns - and thought 23ac a little iffy in terms of historical sensitivities
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oh yes - thank you cruncher, but a strangely worded clue nevertheless
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If 37 is a composite anagram where is the anagram indication? The question mark? I don't find that terribly satisfactory.
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I think "rank" serves a dual function. But I agree that there are several clues that are less than syntactically ideal. Clumsiest, in my opinion, was 3,19 down - "in which is unknown..."
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I took the anagram indicator to be the question mark in 37 too - definitely not so good. Agree that 3,19 was probably the clumsiest clue - thought I was never going to rech the end of it. Also a few minor quibbles like the " 's" in 14,21 which is simply not justified in the wordplay.
I guess the editors allowed a good degree of laxity this time round in view of the excellent technical construction.
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