Comments on: Guardian 24,472/Logodaedalus http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: golgonooza http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39206 golgonooza Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:42:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39206 I found it a bit irritating to solve, but it must have been a real effort to create all rhyming clues. Was it worth it? I found it a bit irritating to solve, but it must have been a real effort to create all rhyming clues. Was it worth it?

]]> By: Peter http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39195 Peter Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:24:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39195 The fact it was all in iambic pentameter surely made it an incredible achievement The fact it was all in iambic pentameter surely made it an incredible achievement

]]> By: JimboNWUK http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39155 JimboNWUK Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:05:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39155 Another numpty who didn't notice the rhyming Is here and agrees it was a 'waste-of-timing' (!!) :o) OK, OK, Another Masefield I ain't! Another numpty who didn’t notice the rhyming
Is here and agrees it was a ‘waste-of-timing’ (!!) :o )

OK, OK, Another Masefield I ain’t!

]]> By: Brendan http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39154 Brendan Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:51:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39154 Also found this an irritating puzzle. The wife and I finished it, but with no sense of satisfaction or pleasure at working out a good clue. Thought he was pushing the boundaries and trying to be too clever by half. Rhyming couplets passed us by too, but it does at least explain some of the very strange wordings. Also found this an irritating puzzle. The wife and I finished it, but with no sense of satisfaction or pleasure at working out a good clue. Thought he was pushing the boundaries and trying to be too clever by half. Rhyming couplets passed us by too, but it does at least explain some of the very strange wordings.

]]> By: Bogeyman http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39081 Bogeyman Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:36:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39081 Like John, I found this puzzle irritating in places. I didn't notice the rhymes until I read this blog, but looking back at it, I wonder why Logodaedalus bothered - the rhyming couplets don't link the clues or the answers together as far as I can see; they just seem to have resulted in some very obscure wording of the clues. Like John, I found this puzzle irritating in places. I didn’t notice the rhymes until I read this blog, but looking back at it, I wonder why Logodaedalus bothered – the rhyming couplets don’t link the clues or the answers together as far as I can see; they just seem to have resulted in some very obscure wording of the clues.

]]> By: Andrew http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39054 Andrew Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:13:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39054 The online version of 3 dn has "mould", not "mound", and I thought it was: "perhaps"=EG + "grey mould" = anagram of grey. There really is a mound in 23ac, where a "thrown up mound" is an ANT HEAP, which if you can't reach it becomes ANTHEA. The online version of 3 dn has “mould”, not “mound”, and I thought it was: “perhaps”=EG + “grey mould” = anagram of grey. There really is a mound in 23ac, where a “thrown up mound” is an ANT HEAP, which if you can’t reach it becomes ANTHEA.

]]> By: John http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39052 John Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:52:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39052 It's the "mound" in 3 dn I don't understand. "Perhaps" is I assume an anagram indicator for "grey". (Unless it's a clumsy pointer to "eg".) But I can't see "mound". Anybody? All in all I found this puzzle irritatingly obscure. You shouldn't have to be a G&S buff to solve a crossword IMO. It’s the “mound” in 3 dn I don’t understand. “Perhaps” is I assume an anagram indicator for “grey”. (Unless it’s a clumsy pointer to “eg”.) But I can’t see “mound”. Anybody?
All in all I found this puzzle irritatingly obscure. You shouldn’t have to be a G&S buff to solve a crossword IMO.

]]> By: GF Johnston http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39048 GF Johnston Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:35:09 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39048 already have..............sorry! already have…………..sorry!

]]> By: GF Johnston http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39047 GF Johnston Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:30:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39047 25 across: try (c)'ant hea(p) 25 across: try (c)’ant hea(p)

]]> By: John http://fifteensquared.net/2008/08/20/guardian-24472logodaedalus/comment-page-1/#comment-39044 John Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:08:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=2399#comment-39044 What is "mound" all about in 3dn? What is “mound” all about in 3dn?

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