Spectator 1943

kayakamina | 07:27 Thu 03rd Dec 2009 | Crosswords

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Here is a link to 'The Works' set by Doc.
http://thespectator.n...om/epaper/viewer.aspx

The puzzle can be found on page 81.

A couple of the clued lights delayed me more than the theme itself which I identified early on.

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Radio Times 50

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barryjbutler

Thanks Kayakamina.

Mysterons

Thanks K, and congratulations to Margaret on your runner-up prize.

crucifernz

Could someone post the PDF link - thanks.

cruciverbali

Thanks kayakamina

A nice bit of light entertainment today - watch out for an awful 'definition' at 6 down, and 9 down is hyphenated. Don't forget that Brewers is available online with your library card number:

http://www.credoreference.com/

Ruthrobin

Not intending to be contentious, Cruciverbali, but 9 is not hyphened in Chambers - it's one word! Yes, Kayakamina, one very short word held me up far longer than the theme which appeared quickly. I though this was an attractive mix of obscure and easy.

cruciverbali

It is indeed Ruthrobin, though in the online version of Chambers there is a hyphen - the main thing is it isn't 2 words as indicated in the puzzle.

crucifernz

Any chance of that PDF?

Christiana

Thanks for link, K.
Crucifernz. Crossword is on page 81. Then press on the print icon and you are given the choice to 'print custom area'. Draw a box around the puzzle and press print and it will adjust to fit the page.

crucifernz

The only reason I ask for the PDF is that I don't have a printer of my own and it's easier to e-mail the PDF to a friend to print rather than have to use her computer...

tenflags

I suspect it's the same short one you guys refer to that also bothered me. With the logic and the cross checks it has to be right but i'm not convinced the last letter is a 'proper/valid' abbreviation. I also agree that 6 down def is flaky and I recall one or two others 'stretch' the def element a bit I feel. All good fun nonetheless.

tenflags

sorry forgot to say thank you very much for the link - much appreciated.

Christiana

Sorry Crucifernz, understand your problem now

bathtub

Thanks for the link, K - I enjoyed this one, more of a test than some of Doc's recent offerings.

I quite agree about that abbreviation: not in Chambers that I can see, not in the IVR or internet suffix lists. Private Eye often refers to discussions of this nature, I believe!

The definition part is quite correct, though the word survives (in two or three letter form) in a very small number of Fenland, mainly S Lincolnshire, placenames. It has not - pace Chambers - been part of local dialect for many a long year. Certainly in the 1960s/70s when I lived there, the meaning of the word, and any certainty about its pronunciation, was lost even to elderly people.

Interestingly (or otherwise!) 'pattins', meaning (ice) skating - a word undoubtedly derived from French - was still going strong, though I guess it's less used now in the days of estuarine English and alleged global warming!