pages tagged nutmegnoteshttp://christophe.rhodes.io/notes/tag/nutmeg/notesikiwiki2014-03-05T17:01:05Zinquisitor 1322http://christophe.rhodes.io/notes/blog/posts/2014/inquisitor_1322/2014-03-05T17:01:05Z2014-03-05T17:01:05Z
<p>I like Inquisitors; solving them usually teaches me something. This
one was no exception; I did not know that the Brownies were known as
the Rosebuds until 1915. In this one, the rubric did not look too scary:</p>
<blockquote><p>Clashes in a small number of cells must be resolved, and the central
square filled, to display a prominent 25 associated a century ago
with the name at 6ac. The revised name, adopted the following year,
must be entered in the blank space at 40, forming new words
downwards. One answer is an acronym.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not only did it not look too scary, but 25dn was clued, and
<strong>CITIZEN</strong> came out fairly quickly, and when I saw <strong>WELLES</strong> down
the main diagonal, and the final D in 6 across from <strong>DOTS</strong>, that
gave <strong>ROSEBUD</strong>, and the clashes in the grid could be resolved to
give <strong>ORSON</strong> to precede Welles, and all looks well. But!
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane">Citizen Kane</a> was from
1941: by no stretch of the imagination was that a century ago. So,
what were the other letters from the clashes? <strong>DENP</strong>. Hm. Oh,
look, the first two letters on the main diagonal are <strong>BA</strong> – and
<strong>BADEN-POWELL</strong> would indeed fit the preamble. And 6ac clues for
<strong>ROSEBUD</strong> in both contexts. <em>Very</em> nice indeed. (See
<a href="http://www.fifteensquared.net/2014/03/05/inquisitor-1322-any-other-name-by-nutmeg/">fifteensquared</a>
for more analysis.)</p>
<ul>
<li><p>6ac: <strong>ROSEBUD</strong>: Potential peace maker?: Cryptic Definition; see
above</p></li>
<li><p>40ac: <strong>BROWNIE</strong> (unclued)</p></li>
</ul>