Good use of cricketing terminology!
― Neil S, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
This one was good too IMO, also today's Guardian:
March about Stoke Poges when king is deposed (5-4)
― Neil S, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Goose Step :)
― bell hops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
you're on fire! took me ages of pondering to get that...
― Neil S, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
once you twigged the anagram it wasn't too bad. the hardest clues are the ones where you can't work out yr line of attack i think
― bell hops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
That's where the c comes from?! I've been learning via puzzles in The Nation, and Frank Lewis being American I haven't run into cricket abbrevs.
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
c = caught, that is.
Yeah, "c" for caught is an abbreviation used on cricket scoreboards, so it's widely used and accepted in UK crosswords
― bell hops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
further sources of confusion: Bowled = b; run out = ro; stumped = st
― Neil S, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
not out = no
don't think you'd have much use for lbw
― bell hops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Joint, English, strangely out leg before wicket? (5)
― Neil S, Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
lol ok
― bell hops (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
Guarantee Jimmy will take a meditative chant (7)
― ledge, Friday, 6 May 2011 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
promise
― abbottabadass (onimo), Friday, 6 May 2011 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
aye
― ledge, Friday, 6 May 2011 12:25 (twelve years ago) link
was racking my brains as to why Jimmy = prise, then it struck me...
― Neil S, Friday, 6 May 2011 12:43 (twelve years ago) link
Eccentric Scotsman puts his finished documents here, by the sound of it (5)
― ledge, Monday, 9 May 2011 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously annoyed with this clue from Paul in the guardian prize btw:
Into smacking, if I then propose shaking, the results should confirm it (3,5,2,2,3,7)
ans: The proof is in the pudding.
THE PROOF IS NOT IN THE FUCKING PUDDING
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
lol outré.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
That is nice. I usually am terrified of clues with scots things in them ('Hamish's cradle', 'Classy In Inverness' etc etc). There's one most weeks in Azed & it just means a bloody war of attrition and then dictionary mining to find a dialect word or strange spelling I'll immediately forget.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
just had a look at that prize & god paul can be irritating.
In North America, island, island, island, island capital (7)
Fun, but next to no surface sense.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
can't see the problem with that pudding clue. or the answer.
(it's the kind of clue i get by the word sizes rather than the anagram though)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:56 (twelve years ago) link
there's no such phrase as "the proof is in the pudding".
"the proof of the pudding is in the eating" wouldn't fit across a standard sized crossword i guess.
― objectionable petty a-hole (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:00 (twelve years ago) link
have you tried googling recently?
was always 'proof is in the pudding' at ours - the ingredients are all well and good but the proof is in the finished result.
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
1st google result
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/proof-of-the-pudding.html
"That longer version makes sense at least, whereas the shortened version really doesn't mean anything"
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
only seems to work with a truncated phrase but...
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/chart?content=proof%20is%20in%20the%20pudding%2Cpudding%20is%20in%20the%20eating&corpus=0&smoothing=1&year_start=1800&year_end=2008
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
i look at that graph and i see a massive decline for the one, the other going from strength to strength. it's just a matter of time... 8)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
"proof" doesn't mean "evidence" in this sense either, but "test", i.e. "the test of whether the pudding is any good is in its taste and not other considerations"
― objectionable petty a-hole (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
would be ok with this if Paul had set a themed enraging/divisive-phrases crossword - 'proof is in the pudding', 'another think coming', 'literally a viking' etc etc
― portrait of velleity (woof), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
we should do one.
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
*cough* "another think coming" is uncontroversial and correct
― objectionable petty a-hole (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
You know where to take it.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
what a fantastic thread.
i am sleep-deprived and can't do any of today's guardian, sigh.
― thomp, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
proof is in the another vikink coming
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
i'm doing better than usual at today's guardian
Blend or brew or fictional small family member? (8)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
Borrower :)
― objectionable petty a-hole (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
v good
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
(wasn't mine. is Brummie from today's guardian)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
need 2 from today's guardian:
12A Powdered bottom (6) _ R _ U _ _
3D One unknown to get into firm danger (6) _ A _ A _ _
(the last letters are the same, the rest are unches)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
ground
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
hazard?
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
ah, with a-z to do with unknown somehow?
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
that's what I was thinking. it's how I get most clues tbh, vague hand-waving.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
yes and yes, thanks (and so obvious when you know)
i suck at dual definition clues.
z often used in algebra to denote an unknown variable. (or x or y)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
on a very bad day i resort to vague handwriting, just so onlookers think i've solved it
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
One = A (ie singular)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
x would have been the obvious algebra substitution but ok
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
you're so one-dimensional 8)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
a little flourish before and after I find helps with that.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link