Re: SCWC 34 Results

On Jul 13, 10:44 pm, Steve Ball <ste...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Flying Tortoise:

On Jul 13, 3:32 am, Steve Ball <ste...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mark Brader
To start with: counterfeiting, rape, impersonation, murder, etc. (5)
Initial letters, &lit.

sb: I like this; the crimes listed are all fairly major indiscretions, and
it finishes nicely with "etc." I like things to be grammatical and I can't
really see that "To start with" = "The starts of", but it's clear what the
intention is, and the whole thing reads well.

Frankly I'm amazed that what you see as a major flaw in others is
dismissed so easily in this entry.

Thanks for sharing that.

I'm generous like that.

"to start with" does *not* = "first
letters of" in this position in any way and the clue as it stands at
best gives an answer of WCRIM with a definition of "etc". In this
order, with "with" and the colon, it's not even an &lit to my mind.

Do I take the absence of comment as agreement or apathy?


Fighting under a flag of truce, is one in war _and_ one out of war?
(5)
AN removed from CRIMEAN

sb: Nice, original idea incorporating probably the most interesting
definition of the lot. "[Something] out of war" suggests removing something
from the middle rather than from the end as is needed here, and "a war"
would better define a particular conflict.

I don't like "one" = A though I'm forced to endure it.

How and by whom?

By not being able to render a completed crossword up otherwise and by
the Listener editor for one.


I absolutely do
not like "one" = AN and nobody has yet seen fit to force me to endure
it.

I've seen both. Shirley, if you're in any way consistent, accepting the one
means you accept the other.

I am entirely consistent in that I 'accept' neither. The Times is
inconsistent in that it allows the one to be used in its published
puzzles and, at least thus far in my experience, not the other, for
which I am profoundly grateful.

Anything else?

Not at the moment but I'm sure I can think of something!

.

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