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Updated 1st January 2017
F.Y.I
Brenda Reding who was an avid cryptic crossword solver, died aged 90 years on Saturday in Italy. My mother did the crossword for at least 70 years of her life and participated in this Blog until about 18 months ago when she couldn’t type anymore. She learnt to use the computer aged 80 when she solved the on-line version then continued on her iPad until 3 months ago.
Welcome to the blog, albeit for such a sad reason.
How splendid that your mother was able to have so many years enjoying cryptic crosswords
My condolences to you and your family.
Welcome from me too and thank you for letting us know of the death of your Mum.
How lovely that she enjoyed crosswords for such a long time – I hope that she also enjoyed BD’s blog.
Learning to use a computer at such an age is amazing and something to be admired.
I join crypticsue in sending my sympathy to you and your family.
Many condolences on the loss of your mother, Sue. She left more than 180 comments on the blog between 2010 and 2014 using the aliases Brendam and Brenda Reding.
Hello Sue, Thank you for letting us know. I am sorry to hear that your amazing Mum is no longer with us. Ditto to the above comments
Mark
Hi Dave, Is it OK to capitalise an adjective that is not the first word in the clue – for the purpose of misdirection?
The clue in question was seen very recently and I was surprised it didn’t come up in the discussion.
Welcome to the blog JohnY
The subject has come up on numerous occasions and the general consensus is that while it is OK to capitalise in order to enhance the surface reading, it is not right to drop necessary capitalisation of, for example, proper nouns. By this I mean that while it is OK to capitalise “May” to suggest a reference to our prime minister, it is not OK to use “may” as a reference to her.
Thanks Dave. I have been on before as JohnY, just a new email address.
Although I had no trouble seeing what was meant and answering the clue, I feel that the position of the boxing themed capitalised forename in the clue means it couldn’t ever have its meaning as an adjective. Tad unfair.
The other thing I have wondered about is if a clue directs you to the last letter of a word – John’s end say – if it can only ever refer to the “n” and not the “s”?