Daily Telegraph GK Crossword 7/2

[BlueIce]

42 d. Strictly speaking the answer is Se7en.
Should Seven of Se7en be entered?

[Aquagility]

I'm going for seVen. Never seen a crossword which calls for a number.

[Alsace666]

I am going for the actual title i.e. Se7en, numbers crop up from time to time e.g. 27a Constantine 1

[Aquagility]

Alsace666, do you actually enter Constantine 1, or Constantine I? Like what would you enter for Edward III?

[harpin]

i tend to agree with alsace - but both should be acceptable

[netibiza]

As it's a crossword, I would have thought it would be seven, but am not getting involved in any arguments.

[hadrianjeffs]

I suppose this one of those clues that could be resolved by doing the puzzle online, where I understand it rejects every answer until you enter the right one.

I may be cynical, but since the Telegraph launched that online puzzle page, there have been an awful lot of these ambiguous clues in the prize crosswords, and one might almost suspect that they were an "incentive" to sign up to the online puzzles.

Surely not...

[Rollo]

hadrianjeffs, in this case NOT!

Because this particular puzzle cannot be completed interactively on the Telegraph Xword site. You have to print it out and then do it the "traditional" way.

[Rollo]

THe poster for the film here says "SEVEN".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se7en

So I'm going for that.

[BigDave44]

hadrianjeffs

It's not quite right that the online site "rejects every answer until you enter the right one". What happens is that you submit the completed puzzle and if there are any incorrect answers they are highlighted and you have the option to continue with the submission - rather pointless! - or return to the crossword. You could, if so inclined, submit it with each possible answer until you get one accepted, but this is rather unnecessary as you can have up to 5 letter hints.

I hope this explains why some of us are able to give a definitive answer to some crosswords, but, as Rollo has said, this does not apply to the Saturday (and Monday) General Knowkedge crosswords.

I am sure that there were debatable answers before the site went online, it's just that by the time the solution was published most people had forgotten about them.

[boingboing]

Sorry a bit late replying to this, if you type Se7en into Amazons search engine the film comes up. Personally I would still put seven into the crossword. I am having more of a dilemma with 46d as a former Classics student my heart says Aias but as a crossword fan my head says Ajax.

[hadrianjeffs]

Thank-you for clarifying the question of the online crosswords. Clearly I don't use the site (I make a point for never using any internet activity that requires payment (unless you count Amazon), because there's simply no need). I was just judging by some of the previous responses to questions on here.

I think Se7en has become the accepted spelling, particularly in literature devoted to cult movies & TV, over the years, but was not originally so. (I've only watched the film once, & can't even remember whether the title appears in the onscreen credits).

It used to be just so simple when the Telegraph crossword just made up a fictitious capital city for Burundi, & didn't know what a Nimrod AEW3 looked like...