Comments for Fifteensquared

Comment on Guardian 24386/Rufus by Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:59:25 +0000

I checked earlier and it’s not listed under Tim Moorey’s excellent list of indicators in Chambers Crossword Dictionary.

Comment on Guardian 24386/Rufus by Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:56:15 +0000

As part of my quest for some kind of life I limited my inquiries to Chambers Online, but ‘capacity’ has to be a bit rum.

You’ll be relieved to hear it’s still a noun um, except when it’s a adjective (well, sort of modifying noun) but since ‘capacity’ as in crowd seems to be all you can get, at best it’s a bit like ‘potential’ - this is used fairly frequently as a post-positional nounal jobby. I regret to inform that I’ve never been convinced.

Even in Ruth Crisp, whose generally excellent list of anagrams (in her wicked book ISBN 0-340-57398-8) contains a few of these, neither hide nor hair of capacity is seen.

Comment on Independent 6730/Mass by nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:25:17 +0000

Understand it now. R also is King = rex

Comment on Independent 6730/Mass by nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:24:19 +0000

KING, I think comes from (swan)KING A little mystified by STORM COCK as it seems an R rather than a K is leaving ‘crock’ = pot, but it might be something else entirely. Enjoyable puzzle, as always from Mass.

Comment on Guardian 24383: Paul — Rainbow Nation by smutchin

smutchin — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:57:35 +0000

I enjoyed the EQUATOR clue (guess it’s a matter of taste) and I’m sure it’s &lit. Like Geoff, I got SPUTUM first and SOUTH AFRICAN from that, then the rest fell into place. A nice puzzle and easy enough for me to complete about 3/4 of it.

(Btw, I’ve only recently discovered fifteensquared and this is my first comment on a blog post here, but I’m sure won’t be my last… love the site)

Comment on Guardian 24386/Rufus by PaulW

PaulW — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:44:57 +0000

I have never seen CAPACITY used as an anagram indicator and I wonder what the compiler really intended. RANDOM would have done nicely.

Comment on Guardian 24386/Rufus by Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:12:57 +0000

I’d obviously not seen the parallel between 29ac and 3dn, but now you’ve explained 3dn these two clues are structurally identical.

Comment on Guardian 24386/Rufus by Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:07:42 +0000

Thanks, Colin. That makes sense.

I wasn’t too keen on ‘capacity’ as an anagram indicator but I did like 22ac, in view of all the other nautical clues. Perhaps 29ac and 3dn were a bit too similar but it was an enjoyable, straightforward puzzle, on the whole.

Comment on Guardian 24386/Rufus by Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:39:45 +0000

I think Brendan was trying to mislead slightly with the reasonable idea that emails are not “written” as such. You can either read that as suggesting that they are typed or that they do not appear on paper (initially).

Thanks for the ref. to GALLANTS.

Comment on Guardian 24386/Rufus by Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:33 +0000

Colin, I know I shouldn’t do this but I forgot to ask at the time - and you blogged that one too - in Brendan’s Friday puzzle, why was EMAIL [10ac] clued as UNWRITTEN messages?