tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025878547150944281.post6999183181943886129..comments2008-11-28T00:31:25.846+05:30Shuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01255928672885834649noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025878547150944281.post-54308017849316603082008-11-28T00:31:00.000+05:302008-11-28T00:31:00.000+05:30Thank you for your helpful comments, xwd_fiend. I've updated the post.Shuchihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01255928672885834649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6025878547150944281.post-48957222217462314692008-11-27T22:25:00.000+05:302008-11-27T22:25:00.000+05:30Agree with most of your comments about some poor/non-cryptic clues - a few explanantions/ideas follow.<BR/><BR/>10A: If you treat 'writing' as a wordplay/def link, (musical) note = E, and ASTERN = back (towards the back of a ship). <BR/><BR/>15A: Ed and Ted are both diminutives of Edward, so Ted = ED is OK. 'up' = 'in revolt' is sometimes used as an anag indicator in hard puzzles. So everything necessary is arguably there, but in silly order.<BR/><BR/>29: 'Cheese made backwards' for Edam is such an old chestnut that in the UK it crops up in quizzes as well as xwds. One for use about once a year only!<BR/><BR/>11D: Stipend is actually not a member of the clergy, but their wages.<BR/><BR/>21D: Just possibly a horrible mixture of: river = Dee, plus Rt. = right. (But if so, still badly done.)<BR/><BR/>25D: Strictly, getting you to convert party to DO and then use it in an anagram is an "indirect anagram" which many think unfair. But on a practical level, {party = do} is so routine that you can harldy miss it.<BR/><BR/>26D: If you use a big enough dictionary (Chambers, for example), any meaning of 'sty' can also be spelled 'stye' (and vice versa). I'm not saying that a daily paper should resort to Chambers, though.xwd_fiendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01290578300623523697noreply@blogger.com