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| (RHONA) MARTIN |
FEB TWENTY ZERO TWO OLYMPICS SALT LAKE CITY
The victorious team (hence RING
1) ‘skipped’ by RHONA MARTIN comprised: DEBBIE KNOX, FIONA MACDONALD and JANICE
RANKIN. Team GB’s most recent Olympic Women’s
Curling team won bronze (hence, RING 3) at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
was skipped by (EVE) MUIRHEAD and comprised ANNA SLOAN, CLAIRE HAMILTON and
(VICKI) ADAMS.
Further assistance and confirmation was provided by YouTube footage:
Later feedback from Magpie solvers comprised:
I always enjoy circular crosswords and this was no exception. Guessed the theme fairly early on so filling in some rings made it easier to finish.
Just a coincidence (I'm thinking not) this is in the same issue as Ohno et al? This is a sport I have tried a few times (it was a fun year working in Raigmore, Inverness). For
a beginner it's far more difficult than it looks (you do well to get a stone somewhere near the big ring) so I appreciate the magnificence of Martin's stone into the centre of
the grid. She deserves to be told of this latest appreciation.
It (now) seems odd that no-one (?) has previously thought of curling for our circular grids. Nice final presentation.
‘You Tube provides useful confirmation’: very true. But for me it also provided a demonstration of how much the Internet can enhance the solving process. The three elements -
the brilliant sporting achievement, the beautifully made little film of it and the excellent crossword itself - combined to make an experience which was so much more than the
sum of its parts. Breathtaking.
To be honest, quite soon after starting this one (having just completed Ohnosecond) I could tell what the theme was going to be ! I was kinda hoping the central ring (the blue
one) would also contain a theme-word, but that's me being greedy.
I love puzzles that depict events so this was right up my street. Many thanks Eclogue for a superb puzzle.
I had solved Ohnosecond by Poat before I got very far in this one, but once I saw OLYMPICS appearing in the extra letters I still tried to make a year divisible by four.
I was quite a while after I had entered RHONA MARTIN under the grid that I realised the significance of the word 'skipped' in the preamble.
I messed up the highlighting, choosing to highlight Gs and Rs for Gold and Red. Nice puzzle, and I remember watching on tv.
More Olympic obscurity. Got stuck after about 2/3 of the clues, but enough on the right-hand side to see a likely FIONA MACDONALD and helpful friendly net searcher did the
rest (of the names).
It's the Winter Olympics again and another delve into Wikipedia which confused me by showing all 5 medal winners rather than just the 4 players in the final. I suspect I may
have coloured in the wrong Os.
It would be nice to think I got this one right. Doesn't really matter that much. So much enjoyment and watching the YouTube video was still able to bring a tingle of
excitement. These circular ones are always hard to 'finish off'; this was no exception. Worthy of its C rating and a lot of fun.
A circular grid, sport, and YouTube: not a promising start. A perhaps fortuitous start led quickly to a guess of Fiona MacDonald, which, in turn, led absolutely nowhere.
Confirmation of the name and a suggestion of the date was followed by some more web searching, this time more successful. With the only names that could fit, the grid fill
became much quicker and a search of youtube turned up the necessary colouring.
Ultimately not too hard and somewhat satisfying, it still had the, admittedly personal, negatives.
The only real downside here, was knowing the theme from reading the preamble.
My greatest memory of the occasion, however was Debbie Knox giving one of the best interviews of all time. On being asked if her kids would have been allowed to stay up to
watch, she looked straight at the camera, saying, "My two will be in bed."
A perfect reason for using a circular grid! Fortunately some of the names appeared early on, and so the other names could be filled in, helping greatly with the remaining
radial clues. A clever exploitation of the theme.
There's something always very impressive about these circular grids, I don't know how they manage to put everything in those rings. Eclogue has got the circular grid down to a
fine art - and this was the puzzle that made the answer grid especially nice to look at before send-off.
I think I was lucky with this one-spotted Olympics with only a few clues solved. Y for the last clue soon gave Salt Lake City and a quick google gave all the relevant names.
Turned this into a A puzzle. You tube clip was nostalgic.
At first read through of preamble I guess this is about the Scottish curlers winning their medals at olympics.
House!
I always enjoy circular crosswords and this was no exception. Guessed the theme fairly early on so filling in some rings made it easier to finish.
Just a coincidence (I'm thinking not) this is in the same issue as Ohno et al? This is a sport I have tried a few times (it was a fun year working in Raigmore, Inverness). For
a beginner it's far more difficult than it looks (you do well to get a stone somewhere near the big ring) so I appreciate the magnificence of Martin's stone into the centre of
the grid. She deserves to be told of this latest appreciation.
It (now) seems odd that no-one (?) has previously thought of curling for our circular grids. Nice final presentation.
‘You Tube provides useful confirmation’: very true. But for me it also provided a demonstration of how much the Internet can enhance the solving process. The three elements -
the brilliant sporting achievement, the beautifully made little film of it and the excellent crossword itself - combined to make an experience which was so much more than the
sum of its parts. Breathtaking.
To be honest, quite soon after starting this one (having just completed Ohnosecond) I could tell what the theme was going to be ! I was kinda hoping the central ring (the blue
one) would also contain a theme-word, but that's me being greedy.
I love puzzles that depict events so this was right up my street. Many thanks Eclogue for a superb puzzle.
I had solved Ohnosecond by Poat before I got very far in this one, but once I saw OLYMPICS appearing in the extra letters I still tried to make a year divisible by four.
I was quite a while after I had entered RHONA MARTIN under the grid that I realised the significance of the word 'skipped' in the preamble.
I messed up the highlighting, choosing to highlight Gs and Rs for Gold and Red. Nice puzzle, and I remember watching on tv.
More Olympic obscurity. Got stuck after about 2/3 of the clues, but enough on the right-hand side to see a likely FIONA MACDONALD and helpful friendly net searcher did the
rest (of the names).
It's the Winter Olympics again and another delve into Wikipedia which confused me by showing all 5 medal winners rather than just the 4 players in the final. I suspect I may
have coloured in the wrong Os.
It would be nice to think I got this one right. Doesn't really matter that much. So much enjoyment and watching the YouTube video was still able to bring a tingle of
excitement. These circular ones are always hard to 'finish off'; this was no exception. Worthy of its C rating and a lot of fun.
A circular grid, sport, and YouTube: not a promising start. A perhaps fortuitous start led quickly to a guess of Fiona MacDonald, which, in turn, led absolutely nowhere.
Confirmation of the name and a suggestion of the date was followed by some more web searching, this time more successful. With the only names that could fit, the grid fill
became much quicker and a search of youtube turned up the necessary colouring.
Ultimately not too hard and somewhat satisfying, it still had the, admittedly personal, negatives.
The only real downside here, was knowing the theme from reading the preamble.
My greatest memory of the occasion, however was Debbie Knox giving one of the best interviews of all time. On being asked if her kids would have been allowed to stay up to
watch, she looked straight at the camera, saying, "My two will be in bed."
A perfect reason for using a circular grid! Fortunately some of the names appeared early on, and so the other names could be filled in, helping greatly with the remaining
radial clues. A clever exploitation of the theme.
There's something always very impressive about these circular grids, I don't know how they manage to put everything in those rings. Eclogue has got the circular grid down to a
fine art - and this was the puzzle that made the answer grid especially nice to look at before send-off.
I think I was lucky with this one-spotted Olympics with only a few clues solved. Y for the last clue soon gave Salt Lake City and a quick google gave all the relevant names.
Turned this into a A puzzle. You tube clip was nostalgic.
At first read through of preamble I guess this is about the Scottish curlers winning their medals at olympics.
House!
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