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GUARDIAN GENIUS No. 78 Brummie

crucifernz | 05:49 Mon 07th Dec 2009 | Crosswords

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Am I right in thinking there should be some special instructions attached to the online version - several of my solutions, which I'm sure are right and intersect, don't seem to fit unless there's some alteration before entry in the grid?

Express Birthday Quiz, Stardate december 6.

Sunday express

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Looks like they've taken it off the site!

Quizmonster

I e-mailed them yesterday afternoon, but have received no reply. Should I get one, I'll pass it on.

crucifernz

Question Author

It's back up now, with the correct instructions. Someone ballsed it up!

Quizmonster

You're 'way ahead of me time-wise now! I just moments ago checked my in-box and was about to pass the info on. What the hey!

ramilahs

Hello Crucifernz and Quizmonster

I also e-mailed but no answer !! But the correction appeared soon enough.

I presume you two have completed it by now. I found it reasonably easy but I am missing something in the entry/solution to 8 across. I think "guarded" is the definition and "tactless" is the entry which fits. The bit that has thrown me is "loose stones that are small in diameter"
"exactly what's required" could be "measured" but then again what has that got to do with "loose stones that are small in diameter" ?? I am surely missing something here and have been wrestling with it for the last five days but of no avail.
Grateful if you can throw some light !

Quizmonster

Hi, Ramilahs, I've finally spotted your query.
Loose stones are scree and, if we're to add to that in a way that gels with 'guarded', presumably the whole word is 'screened'. The only justification for 'ned' that I can see is if you remove some of the centre - a diameter being a central measure - of 'needed', you're left with 'ned'. I'm far from convinced by that, incidentally!
I even toyed with 'tautness', as when something is loose, that's what's needed.
In the end, I went for 'tactless', as you did, though that's far from the first opposite of 'screened' I'd have thought of myself. Time will tell.

ramilahs

Hi Quizmonster

Thanks for your input. After much searching I settled on "discreet" as the solution and then tried to fit the clue to it. If you split it "loose stones that are small" "in" "diameter, exactly what's required" ie "scree" in "d" and "it" VOILA discreet it is !!

Quizmonster

Ah, well done! I knew scree was right but was totally unconvinced by my own 'ned'! And certainly tactless is a much better opposite for discreet than it is for screened. I hope one of us wins! Cheers

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