"Good grief," says Araucaria when I ask him.
This, many Guardian solvers will know, is the sentence with which Noam Chomsky announced his arrival as a force to be reckoned with in the field of linguistics, the example he chose to demonstrate that sentence might be grammatical without being meaningful. The answer is COLOURLESS GREEN IDEAS SLEEP FURIOUSLY, an anagram of "See cluer's use of rare, silly pseudo-lingo". Something Chomsky said, then, and an anagram indicated by "absurd". So we can put that into the clue: "See cluer's use of rare, silly pseudo-lingo - absurd nonsense from Chomsky (10, 5, 5, 5, 9)". The answer to 4 down in this puzzle is Chomsky. It will not do for the answer to have nothing to do with "cluers" and their (alleged) silly pseudo-lingo. If this is to be a good clue, then both the solution and the surface meaning must feed each other. I think it will be all right." ("All right" is an expression setters use frequently, as a euphemism for "fair".)Īnd so I get the paper and look eagerly for the clue, which is: "See cluer's use of rare, silly pseudo-lingo - absurd nonsense from 4 (10, 5, 5, 5, 9)". "It's a quotation," he adds, "a bit obscure. And then, as all setters do from time to time, he has a moment of doubt about the clue. The prize puzzle in the Guardian is mostly set by Araucaria, but sometimes others get a look-in. It's my comment on some of Araucaria's clues." "I've got the prize puzzle," he says, "on Saturday.
I ask him about his criticism of Araucaria, and his face lights up. Pasquale and I eventually meet for supper in a pub south of the Thames. Yeah, he's one of the truly great setters I think - he and Paul are my daily favourites. ― Remember me, but o! forget my feet (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 19 April 2010 06:42 (4 hours ago) Saw the mention of the grauniad crossword upthread and got my wires crossed. ― Blecch Generation (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 April 2010 21:34 (Yesterday) Īh, balls. , although it has been relatively dead in recent times.
GamalielRatsey, this thread should really be called "This is the US crossword puzzle thread." For UK puzzles go here The official bored-at-work cryptic crossword pass it on thread. ― Remember me, but o! forget my feet (GamalielRatsey), Sunday, 18 April 2010 13:46 (Yesterday) Square clue for a padre? (6,6) = parade ground You know you're in trouble when you don't even understand the answers, or why they're the answers.Īnd those reverse clues w' anagram indicators in Wednesday's really got me confused.īacon and eggs etc as clue to RAF basket (6,9) = cooked breafast I've started doing the guardian cryptic again after a looong break and am not finding it too bad (Brendan the other day was Daily Telegraph levels of easiness), although Araucaria seems to have got much harder than he used to be (GR much stupider obv). Told an untruth by Schubert, for example? (4) Orgy revealed by a bed upturned at University church (7)Ģ6. I charge after fresh soil from an Arctic island (11)Ģ0. Drinking-glasses gone next morning? (4, 7)ġ3. My French translation of Genet, first rushed in from the Balkans somewhere (11)ġ2. Working class is in favour of permit allowing song after opening time (11)Ĩ. Amphibian that is both east and west in a part of the Bible (4)ħ. Single-minded enthusiast rendered half crazy (4)ĥ. You smooth more than half of the small, small parts (11)Ģ. The fifth letter from the right margin ruler (4)ģ0. Latin boy twisting a citron from a Caribbean island (6, 5)Ģ9. Percussion instrument with broken amp in it (7)Ģ8. Possible source of biofuel – no diesel around (7)Ģ3. They're in command of their faculties (5)Ģ2. Travels to finish "Peru for Dummies" (5)Ģ0. Wave of popular sentiment is reason to run (11)ġ7. Disturbed niece hid son from Vietnam, possibly (11)ġ0. In fact, I know that a couple are really pushing it, and probably outside what's deemed acceptable. NB I'm a beginner at this, so some of the clues may of course be a bit off, at least if you're a hardcore Ximenean or similar.
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OK, I hope I don't derail the thread by this, but I really am inordinately pleased with myself for having made my first full 15x15, and would like to share.
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