Comments on: Guardian 24,372, Quantum: Quality Control http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:54:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Gary http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/#comment-21100 Gary Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:17:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1473#comment-21100 oops sorry I didn't operate the 'check' function at the Guardian website correctly Mind you 'odd jobman' is almost as dire an answer ;) oops sorry

I didn’t operate the ‘check’ function at the Guardian website correctly

Mind you ‘odd jobman’ is almost as dire an answer

;)

]]> By: Gary http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/#comment-21099 Gary Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:15:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1473#comment-21099 what on earth is 'odd common'? a 'casual type'? Mystified what on earth is ‘odd common’?

a ‘casual type’?

Mystified

]]> By: Andrew http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/#comment-21049 Andrew Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:42:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1473#comment-21049 As Michod says, it's an anagram of I (l)ONER + H. ACT, and then it's "&lit" - i.e. the whole clue is a (rather strained) definition. As Michod says, it’s an anagram of I (l)ONER + H. ACT, and then it’s “&lit” - i.e. the whole clue is a (rather strained) definition.

]]> By: Dave Ellison http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/#comment-21043 Dave Ellison Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:17:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1473#comment-21043 2d ANCHORITE I see AN = IF, as in Shakespeare (possibly), followed by CHORE (hard act?), with IT in there; but can't see where IT comes from. Or maybe I am just straining too much. 2d ANCHORITE I see AN = IF, as in Shakespeare (possibly), followed by CHORE (hard act?), with IT in there; but can’t see where IT comes from. Or maybe I am just straining too much.

]]> By: Paul B http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/#comment-21012 Paul B Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:18:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1473#comment-21012 Thanks for this excellent blog Michod, with which I concur almost entirely. 16dn 'heretic to waver' might be okay, depending on your view. I expect Quantam (sic) would say that the anagram fodder (regarded almost blindly by most compilers as a single unit of SI) warrants plural usage as, even in the wacky world of the arbitrarily constructed surface, it is actually two distinct SI parcels ('heretic' and 'to'). By the same or similar token the fodder might also be regarded as a string of letters, thus mitigating plural usage. Confusingly, the technical reason why plural usage is okay for single-word anagrams can also be used to justify singular usage: you just choose to interpret as one lump (a string) or more than one (lots of letters). Thanks for this excellent blog Michod, with which I concur almost entirely.

16dn ‘heretic to waver’ might be okay, depending on your view. I expect Quantam (sic) would say that the anagram fodder (regarded almost blindly by most compilers as a single unit of SI) warrants plural usage as, even in the wacky world of the arbitrarily constructed surface, it is actually two distinct SI parcels (’heretic’ and ‘to’). By the same or similar token the fodder might also be regarded as a string of letters, thus mitigating plural usage.

Confusingly, the technical reason why plural usage is okay for single-word anagrams can also be used to justify singular usage: you just choose to interpret as one lump (a string) or more than one (lots of letters).

]]> By: michod http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/#comment-20937 michod Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:52:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1473#comment-20937 Thanks for the corrections Andrew, now taken in. 17 down I assume to be a reference to home improvements as you say, Eileen, though the definition's not great. Thanks for the corrections Andrew, now taken in. 17 down I assume to be a reference to home improvements as you say, Eileen, though the definition’s not great.

]]> By: Eileen http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/#comment-20934 Eileen Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:47:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1473#comment-20934 I'm glad it's not just me, too! I was with Andrew in thoughts about clips around the ear but agree that your blog makes more sense. 17dn is presumably ODD-JOBMAN? Is the reference to home improvements? I quite liked 13ac, too - and 12ac. I’m glad it’s not just me, too!

I was with Andrew in thoughts about clips around the ear but agree that your blog makes more sense.

17dn is presumably ODD-JOBMAN? Is the reference to home improvements?

I quite liked 13ac, too - and 12ac.

]]> By: Andrew http://fifteensquared.net/2008/04/25/guardian-24372-quantam-quality-control/#comment-20933 Andrew Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:42:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1473#comment-20933 I totally agree with you about the unsatisfactory double defs (6dn was another of these) and the not-very-cryptic cryptic defs. Could do better! I think 2dn is supposed to be an &lit. 18dn - I thought this referred to clips around the ear as supposedly inflicted by old-style bobbies on the beat etc, but your version maybe makes more sense. BTW a couple of typos in the blog - "QuantAm" in the title, and for 9ac "..this _short_ of word.." I totally agree with you about the unsatisfactory double defs (6dn was another of these) and the not-very-cryptic cryptic defs. Could do better!

I think 2dn is supposed to be an &lit.

18dn - I thought this referred to clips around the ear as supposedly inflicted by old-style bobbies on the beat etc, but your version maybe makes more sense.

BTW a couple of typos in the blog - “QuantAm” in the title, and for 9ac “..this _short_ of word..”

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