From the editorial team:
Apologies to anyone solving this weekend’s competition crossword from the print edition. Due to an editorial error, 1 across in print reads“Committee member recalled enthralling viral content (4)”. The correct clue should read:
“Starters of rancid octopus given to every man in city on the Tiber (4)”.
Thank you , someone did put this on the Everyman blog for me but it is nice that someone has made the effort to do this .
Thanks!
Since I still like to use dead tree technology, I was puzzled by this clue, particularly as its solution would have duplicated a light elsewhere in the grid.
Yes – thanks much. I used the online version (but very early) and the wrong clue was there. I tried every way I could think of to make it work … . Cactophile – I was wondering if it was a reference to the nature of the answer in both cases :-).
The clue in the online version actually reads “Starters of rancid octopus given to Everyman in city on the Tiber (4)” The difference is significant.
Yes, it has now been corrected on the online version. I downloaded at 01.00am UK time and the wrong clue was there then.
Thank you for confirming that this was an error
22D is also different in the two versions. Having completed the rest of the puzzle, I suspect that the print version is the correct one, i.e.,
Crossword setter repeatedly source of amusement online (4)
rather than
Committee member recalled enthralling viral content (4)
Or has that clue been changed in the on-line version since I looked at it yesterday?
Not The Observer’s best day!
The curse of Hugh Stephenson survives the change of ownership
Robin Gilbert @8
Let us call the clues you mention A and B, in that order The original online version and, I beleive, the print version give A at 1A and B at 22D; although the preamble here only mentions a change to the 1A clue (and at that in the form given byAndrew @5 – is Grauniad catching?), but the online version now has B at 22D. Of course we woiuld need word from the Observer or Everyman to be sure, but a reasonable assumption would be that Everyman changed his mind from A to B for 22D, and the correction was mistakenly applied to 1A. This would make the current online version the definitive one.
Well done (not) the NZ Herald, which also printed the wrong clue on May 23rd. I knew something was wrong when I got two answers the same. It makes the word ‘repeatedly’ in the 22d clue somewhat ironic.