Comments on: Guardian 24356/Rufus

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:47:05 +0000

I had Colin’s reading for 12ac, but yours seems equally valid. I wonder how often something like that happens.

By: Comfy Settee

Comfy Settee — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:16:18 +0000

My wordplay for 12ac was a little different to yours…

Question = ASK
one = AN
about = C (circa)
point = E

By: Dave Ellison

Dave Ellison — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:01:36 +0000

21 ac. We have some Le Creuset cooking pots, so I guessed cruse was near enough. It’s French for crucible, smelting pot apparently.

I liked the Isis one - hadn’t seen this before

By: Peter Owen

Peter Owen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:29:09 +0000

For the widow’s cruse read 1 Kings 17.7-17 in the King James Version.

http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=74578448

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:02:17 +0000

14a or, ‘…had come…’.

I may be particularly ignorant but I have never come across “widow’s cruse” or Cruse the counselling service.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:48:48 +0000

14A Surely the clue would have made more sense as ‘came’, rather than ‘come’?

I did like 21A - a nice surface reading and surely the widow’s cruse [of oil, which never ran out] is fairly well-known? It has given its name to Cruse, a bereavement counselling service.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:06:41 +0000

I expect Rufus wanted to write

One short Scientologist a little potty? (5)

but didn’t have the legal resources. Er, I mean heart.