Comments on: Friday, 2/19/10

By: Taps Arter

Taps Arter — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:31:49 +0000

Susan Boyle is an immensely talented lady who’s been subjected to considerable criticism in the media. IMHO she deserves every bit of success that she is experiencing.

By: Vic

Vic — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:13:16 +0000

Thanks for the nice comments. Sorry I did not post this last Friday. I was taken totally by surprise on Friday morning at the ACPT. I downloaded the puzzle in the hotel lobby and thought I had accidentally opened an Acrosslite file from a documents file on my laptop. I could barely remember the puzzle. It was submitted in October 2008. Over half the clues had been changed. I figured I needed to solve it so as to be able to respond to the comments, which were legion. I made every mistake that was mentioned in these comments and, with help from Merl, Marie, Bonnie and Patrick Creadon, was able to finish the puzzle in just under half an hour! Vic

By: Jon S.

Jon S. — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:01:52 +0000

SPEEDSTER is a Porsche, yes? I had to abandon this puzzle due to serial Olympics viewing.

By: Daz

Daz — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:44:25 +0000

I think “Fleet type” for SPEEDSTER has nothing to do with boats, but is just saying that a SPEEDSTER — one who is speedy — is a fleet [i.e., fast] type [i.e., member of an indicated class or variety of people].

By: Sparky

Sparky — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:42:15 +0000

I always get around to this too late but, for what it’s worth, Wonder Woman took off the golden tiara and threw it like a boomerang to clunk some foe on the head.

By: John Haber

John Haber — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 01:15:04 +0000

I looked up gofer in RHUD, and it does say “also gopher.” I got that quadrant first, actually. I feel bad myself that I didn’t get Hart Crane sooner. Honestly, you should know him. Major American poet of early Modernism. I was just thinking of his “Chaplinesque” the other day, which is a poem to make you cry.

I too found this a hard one and finished the SW last. I messed up for a bit in the SE with “hit man” instead of SLAYER (intersecting HRH instead of HMS). I didn’t recognize LADIES DAY either, thinking only of LADIES NIGHT in bars or restaurants (admittedly, not exactly in NYC anyhow). I had “riata” too, since TIARA seemed more like part of the costume than a weapon, but what do I know about comics, and I never followed that one!

By: David

*David* — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:20:20 +0000

I was surprised that Klahn put in LIE and LIED in the same puzzle albiet with different meanings to make it more palpatable but it seems a bit sneaky to me. Great puzzle otherwise.

CHE interesting up/down direction with the punny themes, easier then usual in my book only questionable cross was AHERN/TNN.

Thanks to Seth for the heavy lifting, significant recompense is coming your way from the Big O.