i Prize Cryptic Crossword 1487 by Phi
November 21, 2015
Saturday 14th November 2015
Well this was one of my favourite Phi puzzles for a long time – and also the first for a while with no theme, either hidden or otherwise. Coincidence? I couldn’t possibly comment.
We all like a bit of sauce, so the reversal of ‘in 1 C-cup’ for Puccini brought a chuckle, but for once I’ll go high-brow for my COD:
27a Fateful forest, in which mad woman in pen died (6,4)
The 2011 blog from Fifteensquared with all the answers can be accessed by clicking here.
Borodin
batarde
Saboteur
flashling
jonofwales
Cornick
sprouthater
uiytjhgmj
willow1235
Rats. I bet myself a mince pie that you’d go for 18d as COD. Splendid puzzle all round, wasn’t it?
It was close, but how were you to know my fondness for Act 5 scene iv of The Scottish Play?
Many years ago Radio 3 broadcast a playlet called Hamlet: Part 2. As you’ll recall there’s something of a power vacuum in the state of Demark by the end of Part 1 … the sequel involved a good deal of casting around for someone to take over other than Fortinbras. Part of the dialogue went a bit like this:
Horatio: What about Macbeth?
Osric: Nope, sorry – he’s dead too. Killed by a forest, strangely enough.
Horatio: Slain by a florist? ‘Tis an ignoble fate!
Ho, ho ho!
It feels like an age ago, but I seem to remember that your COD was the only one I really struggled with. Now this week’s…
Indeedy-deedy…