(kanga)ROO (jumper) + EVE (First Lady) in SL + T (shirt) L (Latvia – International Vehicle Registration) in (wears) PATE (crown) – a plate can be (Collins) ‘an entire course of a meal: a cold plate‘ġ0 President in jumper and First Lady in extremely special shirt (9) ROOSEVELT My thanks to him.ĩ Leader of Latvia wears crown, of course (5) PLATE I didn’t expect any response to that and was surprised to find the comments, which KenMac has kindly moved to this blog. I was unable to post the blog until around 7.00am this morning and posted a placeholder to that effect just after midnight. NB For the sake of the archive: my apologies for any confusion over the first 14 comments on the blog. Many thanks to Qaos for a most enjoyable puzzle. (*EPIC and SUMAC seemed like likely candidates, which I found in a different context and so, not being an expert I may have got my nomenclature wrong.)Īs for the clues, I had ticks for 10ac ROOSEVELT (cleverly crossing with FRANKLIN), 11ac CHAFFINCH, 15ac COPPERS and 25ac CENTURY, both for the surface, 31ac LIE-IN, for the ingenious construction, 1dn EPIC (I always enjoy Qaos’ mathematical clues and I was chuffed to work this one out), 3dn SERF for the excellent definition / surface, 4dn FRANKLIN, 6dn PERCEPTION and 23dn UNMASK for the brilliant surface. There may well be more, hidden more subtly, so I look forward to your contributions. I spotted COPPER PLATE, COMIC SANS, TIMES NEW ROMAN, COURIER, CENTURY, FRANKLIN and GOTHIC (and had a little smile at the thought of SANS SERF, which, of course, conjured memories of the classic Guardian spoof, which I always love citing) There have been several comments recently to the effect that almost anything can be the name of a band, for instance, and so I feel no shame in confessing that I resorted to lists to confirm my suspicions, since I have little experience in this area, apart from the few I use myself. I was about half way through this one when bells began to tinkle and then I had fun tracking down an impressive number of what I recognised as *Microsoft fonts. At least, with a Prize puzzle, we have more time to search – and research. Some setters’ puzzles sometimes have a theme: Qaos puzzles always have a theme – and sometimes it’s a challenge to find it, especially if, as sometimes happens, it’s a film or band, for instance, that I’ve never heard of. It’s always good to see Qaos’ name on a puzzle that I’m blogging and particularly when it’s a Prize – although it has been mentioned several times recently that it is, apparently, the editor and not the setter who determines which puzzles go into the Prize slot.
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