Times Quick Cryptic 1760 by Izetti

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1. …and finished in a reasonable 8:16. The cryptics were quite straightforward, and there was no obscure vocabulary…..well, of course I’ve heard of Dreyfus! I found shrivel the most difficult, but since it is an anagram, still very accessible.
2. I actually dined once at high table at Clare College, Cambridge. As we filed in, the students all rose, and rose again when we filed out. Wouldn’t want to make a habit of that. Good port, as I recall. The DREYFUS Affair should be part of anyone’s GK. 6:24.
   1. ‘Should be’ and ‘anyone’ is putting it a bit strongly I feel as I doubt the Dreyfus Affair features in most people’s lives. But we shall see as the day progresses. So often the early comments here are not representative of newer Quick Cryptic solvers who I’m pleased to note are expanding their numbers by the day at the moment.

      I have been offered the opportunity to dine at an Oxford high table on two occasions quite recently and turned both down. Not my scene at all, and I went off port years ago.

      Edited at 2020-12-07 05:56 am (UTC)

      1. We’re “anonymous” here….And I went off port as well! I had a present of a Graham’s port last Xmas (allegedly a good one) and haven’t touched it (yet)
         But I had a meal at High Table when I received my MA (circa ‘81) and went back to the OCR and learnt more about the true essence of academia in that session than I did in three years as an undergraduate. Thanks for the thought Kevin.
3. Typically when I have hesitations about my last one in, I press Submit, and receive the pink square I deserve. Fortunately, today HIGH TABLE was right.
4. Got off to a good start, but was interrupted by my wife and forgot to stop the clock. Still 20.34, just over my goal of 20. Got stuck in NW corner. Never heard of HIGH TABLE since I’m just ordinary, but guessed it. On the other hand, knew DREYFUS. Very enjoyable thanks Izetti and jackt
5. So the “average QC solver” has limited GK?
   1. Nobody knows everything so to that extent everybody’s GK is ‘limited’ and what’s ‘general’ to some is ‘obscure’ to others. I was just expressing doubt that the average QC solver (even supposing such a person exists) would be particularly familiar with details of an event that scandalised France over 100 years ago.

      Edited at 2020-12-07 09:11 am (UTC)

      1. I believe I mentioned Dreyfus (tho spelled wrongly!) last week in relation to his being cashiered. Robert Harris wrote an excellent novel An Officer and a Spy, pub 2013, on the subject.

         Average QC solvers are not necessarily lacking in GK. We are just learning to negotiate Crosswordese.

         Edited at 2020-12-07 10:59 am (UTC)

      2. I have now read about Alfred Dreyfus. NHO him before now but then history is not my forte.
      3. I suspect the average QC solver is no more or less familiar with French history (and classic literature) than any other reader of The Times.
6. My WOD. Alfred Dreyfus brings to mind Devil’s Island and the later story of the ‘Girl Pat’ – not part of Anyone’s GK- methink. As an Old Carrensian I had my ninety days at 18ac.

   FOI 1ac RESIGN

   LOI 7dn GLEE – I will never be asked to join this club.

   COD 11ac BUMPINESS – assembled with IKEAN pine.

   I note Kane’s sled appears once again at 1dn.

   ‘So often the early comments here are not representative..’. America First!

   Edited at 2020-12-07 08:38 am (UTC)

   1. I wasn’t thinking in terms of the USA although I suppose with UK-centric clues that may have some relevance on occasion.

      No, I meant that the earlier posters (and I count myself amongst them) tend to be very experienced solvers of cryptic puzzles so they (sorry, we) may give the impression that everything is easy or, in today’s case, common knowledge. A different picture tends to emerge as more people with varied experience of cryptics contribute throughout the day.

      Edited at 2020-12-07 09:20 am (UTC)

      1. I am fully aware of your thinking, Jack! Experience is all. I omitted my unworthy time of 10.45 on the Hong Qiao – Linslade Rattler.

         I would advise dear Mr. Wyvern that there are more productive ways of wasting an hour. Your daily struggles make for heroic copy, but why not take up pianoforte, horticulture or marquetry? I do jams and philately which are most rewarding pastimes and avoids my attendance at the Club Monthly Special, which is a complete waste of my time – as are ‘Jigsaw Puzzles’ and pilates. Meldrew

7. I found this fairly easy going, until I came to LOI DREYFUS. I’m vaguely aware of the name and that there was an ‘affair’ around it at some point in history but couldn’t start to tell you what it was about. Fortunately with all the checkers in place and clear cluing it didn’t hold me up for too long, but I’m about to go and educate myself. Finished in 8.56 with COD to EGRETS and an honourable mention to SWAP.
   Thanks to Jack
8. I found this one vert difficult to get started.

   FOI: 3d GIVE IT A WHIRL – I was about 18 minutes in before I got the first one in.
   LOI: 22a SLIP OFF

   30 minute mark: 6 answered
   60 minute mark: 17 answered

   Time before use of aids time: 38 minutes.

   Once I got my FOI, I started to do much better.

   14d I was sure I had seen that clue fairly recently before.

   I spent too much time ,oozing for an anagram of SON WAS in 15a.

   Not a bad start to the week for me, but I do hope I’ll improve as the week goes on.

   1. Excellent perseverance PW, and to be admired. I suspect that one day soon something will ‘click’ and your solving rates will improve dramatically.

      One piece of advice may be never to spend long on any individual clue, especially in the early stages; there are sure to be easier pickings elsewhere in the grid. But having made a start, focus your attention for a while on the adjoining clues and try to build from there. If you are stuck abandon that and look elsewhere. A fresh look at a clue, even after only a couple of minutes can sometimes make all the difference.

      Edited at 2020-12-07 10:55 am (UTC)

   2. If you’re getting bogged down, and want to “cheat” a little to get you going again, forget the clue for a moment and just try to fit a word in around the checkers. If you find a likely-looking word, check the clue and see if your answer fits the wordplay.

      At all events stick at it – it doesn’t matter how long it’s currently taking you, if you enjoy it that’s all that matters. And you will, as Jack says, get suddenly quicker one day when it all comes together. Just like learning to drive really – clutch down, move gear-lever slowly to next position, clutch up again slowly. And then one day, bang!, you don’t even realise you’re doing it 🙂

      H

      1. That’s pretty much what I always have to do – apart from anagrams . Get a likely answer from the definition (assuming I can work out which bit it is) and then try to parse it to confirm it’s correct.
   3. I usually start with the three letter clues, if there are any. Mostly, I find them accessible and that gives a toehold. “Woe” went in straight away today, but I couldn’t get “don” until I’d got the checkers.
      1. Not so much in the Quickie, but in the main puzzle I always go for the 3- and 4-letter answers first. The longer the clue the longer I usually put off tackling it unless the enumeration reveals that it’s a multi-word answer – it’s always worth have a go at those because if the answer is a familiar phrase or saying it might really open up the grid.
   4. Really enjoying reading of your exploits and I’m sure we all feel your pain and I see some good comments that are offered to try to help…yes short ones can often really help. But I have been forced to comment because I was surprised to see that Give it a whirl was your foi when I struggled with that and left it until later.
      1a actually went in easily for me – anagram of singer – I actually wrote in Swop before realising that it had to be Swap.. Son is often just S but maybe not!!
      Anyway – keep going !!! And keep your progress coming! I was as you and am now around the 15/25 minutes with approx 80% completed.
      From this blog you learn the basic language and will definitely improve no end with practice! But enjoy all and expect a few that set you back to thinking that you are a total novice even after a few years!!!
      Regards
      John
9. After Friday’s disaster with the QC enjoyed this one.

   Knew Zola’s J’Accuse regarding the Dreyfus affair.

   FOI Resign
   LOI Bumpiness
   COD Slip Off

   Reading the blog realised I had not gone back and fully parsed Don.

   Thanks Izetti and Jack

10. I thought this was a tough start to the week, but managed to complete it in 35mins.

    DNK “Dreyfus” but it was accessible from the clueing and it became fairly apparent it was probably some name or other I hadn’t heard of as part of my limited GK. However, the trickiest ones for me we’re 10ac “Radio” and 6dn “Probe”. I nearly put “Place” for the latter.

    Lots to like though, including 11ac “Bumpiness”, 18ac “High Table” and 5dn “Widower”.

    FOI – 12ac “Woe”
    LOI – 6dn “Probe”
    COD – 14dn “Landing”

    Thanks as usual.

11. FOI RESIGN. No big hold-ups. I knew Dreyfus. My last two were SHRIVEL and finally SCRAM (unparsed). Time 09:28.
    As ever Izetti’s clueing was very precise; a help for beginners. COD to DALLAS but other candidates too.
    David
12. I found this tough too. I hadn’t got Dreyfus but as soon as I saw the comment about the need for GK I realised it might be a name I needed and it leapt into my mind. I do think it is unreasonable for a quickie. Some younger would be solvers might also need a history lesson to know what an EP is or, for that matter, what a ‘set’ is. Quite a bit of Americana too. A good workout though – thanks setter and blogger.
13. Riciculously difficult for a quick cryptic. Many of these clues very dodgy and unfair.

    2 Down:
    “Go away from academic room in the morning (5)
    SCRAM : SCR (academic room – Senior Common Room), AM (in the morning).”

    Senior Common Room ? Really ? Do you need to have been to a public school to do these crosswords ?

    16 Down:
    “One falsely imprisoned doctor you upset — endless commotion (7)
    DREYFUS : DR (doctor), then YE (you) reversed [upset], FUS{s} (commotion) [endless].”

    YE ? Really ? Are we all talking like Biblical prophets now ?

    1. Hi, I know it’s annoying when you think a clue relies on specialist knowledge, but I think 16d is actually a good example of a setter trying to help, not hinder, the solver. Dr for doctor is a standard abbreviation, and an endless (=drop last letter) commotion/fus(s) is a common cryptic technique that you will just have to get used to if you want to progress. I agree Ye is certainly an old fashioned word, but Alfred’s surname was Dreyfus, not Druoyfus, so Izetti had to use ye, or completely re-write the clue. I hope that helps.
14. Is it me? I seem to be getting slower! 22 minute slog here, although that might be to do with sitting up until after 1:00 am absorbed by the snooker. I knew DREYFUS so no real problems there, although it was penultimate one in, followed by LOI EGRETS. I was also slow with HIGH TABLE, and SCRAM. Otherwise a fairly typical Izetti I thought. Thanks Jackkt.
    1. No it isn’t just you. I am getting slower too.
    2. I’m convinced they’re getting harder.

       We seem to have more days of toughies than easy write ins. Not a bad thing for some – but perhaps straying away from the original intention of introducing new people to cryptics and/or providing something accessible that can be completed “quickly”.

       1. I agree; it is not just you Rotter and (see my main comment below) I also found this slow going. Indeed after another challenging one from Pedro last Friday there was a post right at the end of the blog inviting the editor to comment and say whether a move to more challenging QCs was intentional. As yet no reply but it would be nice to know.

          Cedric

    3. No, it is definitely not you, rotter. I had three or four SCC solves last week and seem to be around double my former times. I continued in that vein today (a couple of minutes longer than you) but with all clues parsed. I agree with James’s comment about more ‘toughies’ in recent weeks.
       I’m not complaining, unlike like some miserable specimens (usually anonymous, of course) who whine at length when it a crossword is not tailored specifically to them. I enjoy these challenges and there were certainly some lovely clues today (but I won’t list them). Clues like SCRAM only came into my head when I got crossers, despite being a SCR member for decades; I think some solvers think that every clue has to be solved as a stand-alone. Some of us rather depend on building up the crossers as we jump around the grid!
       Many thanks to Izetti for a challenge and jackkt for the blog. John M.

       Edited at 2020-12-07 11:26 am (UTC)

       1. Chortle!

          Why do I have to think to complete a cryptic puzzle, why? Too hard, ridiculous, why can’t they all be write ins?

          It’s the “Quick” cryptic, not “Easy” cryptic. I don’t think I have ever finished the 15×15 in less time than the QC. I normally complete the QC in 5-10 mins, 5 being an easy puzzle, 10+ being hard. 15×15 in 15-60 minutes. So I think it is not disingenuous to call it the “Quick” cryptic. I’ve been doing these things for 15 years, and it was more than 2 years before I could finish a 15×15 unaided, there being no QC when I started.

          The crossers are a massive help, which is why I just move on to the next clue if nothing springs to mind immediately. E.g. SHRIVEL today – I could see it was an anagram of liverish, minus an i, but couldn’t think of it, so left it, and came back to it, whereupon it was a write in, given the crossers. Same with HIGH TABLE, no clue on first pass, though with TABLE in the back of my mind as “dining facility”, when I come back, I have H?G?/T?B??, then it’s no great leap to put in HIGH TABLE, I suppose it could be HUGE TABLE, but HUGE has no relation to “school” in the clue.

15. Having breezed through Friday’s offering from Pedro (relatively speaking) I found this one tricky and hard going for a Monday. I was interrupted several times which didn’t help, but it still took around 34 minutes excluding interruptions. Difficulties all over the grid but nothing which wasn’t accessible from the clueing. Had heard of Dreyfus but still took a long time for the penny to drop.

    FOI – 1ac RESIGN
    LOI – 16dn DREYFUS
    COD – 5dn WIDOWER

16. I got bogged down in the SE corner. Matters weren’t helped by me putting in SLIP Out initially. HIGH TABLE and EGRETS were very late solves and my LOI was the unknown DREYFUS constructed from wordplay. I also biffed SCRAM from checkers. 14 minutes
17. Bad start with identifying a simple anagram at 1A but could not solve it: REIGNS? INGRES? A rapid 1A always leads to a good time for me.

    Was no-one tempted with Bruce Forsysth’s catch phrase of “Give us a Twirl”?

    Is BUMS for layabouts British English? I thought in the UK it only meant backside.

    I recently read the Robert Harris book, but did nor rate it highly. Harris is better with pure fiction IMHO.

    No problem with GK such as Dreyfus, but I dislike the over preponderance of Public School & Oxbridge vocab that we solvers are expected to know. After ETON FIVES a couple of weeks ago, we had DON, SCR and HIGH TABLE today.

    COD: SLIP OFF

    1. I must confess to writing in ‘give it a twirl’ before checking the anagram more carefully when W*** TABLE made no sense. 🙄 John
    2. Izetti has a special dispensation to mention Don as often as he wishes!
    3. Yes, I had no problem with Dreyfus – we did it at school when they still taught history. Don’t think I knew SCR – certainly had no idea how to parse 2d after I’d biffed it. Ditto for ‘high’ although, I have heard of high schools but I didn’t make the link.

       Otherwise, I didn’t struggle as much as I usually do with Izetti.

18. Got there in the end. FOI Woe, aptly enough.

    LOI. Radio (COD) and Probe (confess I looked up that one). Also liked Booze.

    As I said, I knew Dreyfus. Got Depot but couldn’t parse EP. Must remember that one. Guessed Scram from AM. Did not think of SCR.

    Thanks, blogger, and also many thanks for weekend QC, Phil.

    Edited at 2020-12-07 12:43 pm (UTC)

19. Very pleased to have managed to finish this testing puzzle. Know DREYFUS, but not expecting it in a Quick Cryptic. LOI PROBE.
20. RESIGN was my FOI and then I made steady progress in no particular order. I built DREYFUS from the wordplay and then remembered the Dreyfus Affair, although I couldn’t have said exactly what it was about, until I read Jack’s link. I finished in the NE with SWAP and PROBE. 9:23. Thanks Izetti and Jack.
21. I had no problems with this one. 6:11. If you’d asked me, I’d have said that most QC solvers would have heard of Dreyfus, even if they couldn’t remember the details, but it looks like Jack knows the field better! If I had to guess at anything that might have held people up I’d have gone for SCR. But maybe QCers were avid Morse viewers 🙂

    COD – PAWS

    If anybody fancies pushing themselves, try the Saturday Prize 15×15 – quite doable I found.

    H

22. So if I wasn’t privately educated, or didn’t actually make it to University, I could forget Senior Common Room and High Table. For that matter, being a ‘girl’ also precludes immediately seeing SCR.
    PLEASE, a little less clubby.
    1. What would you like? PLEASE do tell!
       1. Or better yet, don’t.
    2. I see these as being part of GK that does not demand that a solver has first-hand experience. And the SCR covered men and women without any discrimination, in my experience.
       We do not need to have spent time in business, in hospital, in the motor trade or whatever to be able to consider terms used in such areas. The same is true for every other area from Geography to literature and music.
       I’m always happy to have my horizons broadened by terms discovered via Crosswords. 🙂
    3. Well, I’m female, didn’t go to public school and am not a “club” member, but thought this was a very fair puzzle! Surely High Table, Senior Common Room, Dreyfus etc are just General Knowledge?
23. The best QC comment we have had for a while. We Old Blighters must stick together. Meldrew

    Edited at 2020-12-07 12:45 pm (UTC)

24. Absolute shocker for me, which is a pity because I really enjoyed it and ‘finished’ a shade under 15. LOI was BOOZE, as I had ‘High Chair’ for HIGH TABLE which had made sense to me when I typed it, only I entered it as BOZEE which wrecked SLIPOFF too and when combined with DEN (which is Ned from the east could have given a capital city I’ve not heard of), so that’s three wrong from three pink squares and dead last on the leaderboard. Perhaps I’d better stick to early solving, lunchtimes clearly don’t suit me. Big gaps on the RHS until PRESS CUTTINGS fell, then I raced to the end.
25. Izetti’s puzzle was a very welcome 24min antidote to Friday’s puzzle, with a 1ac/1d start and a fairly steady solve thereafter. I was fortunate to have all the required GK, but I thought the cluing, as ever with Don, was perfectly fair and the crossers were in any case helpful. Slight hold ups with 11ac, where I thought the trees might be Limes, and loi 19d where I initially had (last) Gasp, but couldn’t make it parse. CoD to 16d, Dreyfus, a good example of how to guide the solver to the correct answer even if the word was unknown. My thanks to Izetti and Jackkt. Invariant
26. … after Mara did so a few puzzles ago. Though Oink remains the standard-setter here!

    I am learning to be not surprised these days when a puzzle takes me a little longer than expected – this one took me 16 minutes, against my long run average for Izetti of just under 14. But unlike some puzzles I have struggled with recently, this one was never an unenjoyable experience with some very good clues and some nice touches. My LOI was the much-mentioned 16D Dreyfus, which only fell after all the checkers and then considerable thought: to those of a certain age or reading interests, Dreyfus is not particularly obscure GK, but I think the combination of a foreign name (always potentially difficult) and some very intricate construction in the clue did mark it out as quite challenging for a QC. But if setters were not allowed to set any clues requiring just a little cogitation the enjoyment would be much reduced.

    I also thought a bit at the time about Cared = Worried in 15A; the two are not really synonyms but I put it in anyway and can convince myself they are close enough.

    I suspect more experienced solvers have seen it before, but COD for me the very simple 4A Swap: a nice clue and a most elegant surface.

    Many thanks Jack for the blog
    Cedric

27. In these puzzles, all vocabulary and all areas of life are fair game, including any word anyone has said from 1200 on. Today it may be the Senior Common Room and the high table, tomorrow it may be snooker, followed by some dicey stuff from the Urban Dictionary.

    The QC has this range, only with reduced obscurity. Dreyfus, but not Leon Blum, ye but not uncer, bevy but not cete, earl but not eorl, etc, etc.

    1. That’s why I avoid the 15*15!
       1. That’s mostly stuff from Mephisto, which no Quickie solver in his right mind would attempt.
28. Though not as stiff as Friday’s.

    I Liked PAWS, BUMPINESS.

    6:31 for me.

29. I found this tough as I do all izetti puzzles. Never heard of scr but did know who dreyfus was, although I thought the clueing was poor for a QC. I also thought the clue for bumpiness was terrible. Being new to this game I take the good with the bad and don’t expect every puzzle to be easily solved. But it is encouraging when there is at least one puzzle a week that can be solved by us learners.

    I suspect I will never get on with izetti I just don’t like his style of clueing. But in the words of Sinatra “that’s life”

30. Well, we progressed very nicely through this one at a reasonable speed. We solved 18A pretty quickly and then had a complete mental block on 19D (I know, it’s really easy and should have been a write in) and unpicked high table several times before concluding that it had to be the right answer. Then, gosh, we got gosh straight away. Oh well that was a fun 26 minutes – thanks Izetti.

    FOI: resign
    LOI: gosh
    COD: give it a whirl (which is wHt we should have done with 18A)

    Thanks Jackkt.

31. Crikey, the bitter Anonymice are out in force today!

    Bucking the trend somewhat, I found that a Monday breeze which I knocked off in 1.4K over a bowl of soup.

    FOI RESIGN, LOI GLEE (“gee” is so American that it took a long time to come to mind), COD GIVE IT A WHIRL (lovely), time a Very Good Day.

    Many thanks Izetti and Jack.

    Templar

    1. I am one on the anon and sure why you think the comments are bitter as they certainly are not intended as so. Some of us are anon because we cannot get the system to recognise us.

       It’s Christmas maybe a little more charity to those who struggle on the puzzles

       Still anon.

       1. Hi, Still anon, it’s unfortunate the impression appears to have been given that anon posters are not welcome here because that’s not generally the case, but it is true that we do sometimes experience contributions that are negative and not in the spirit of the forum from posters who withhold their identity.

          If you are unable to sign up for a free Live Journal account (or for some reason don’t wish to) you can follow the example of some of our regular ‘anons’ and add a name or pseudonym at the end of your contributions to give yourself a form of identity. That way we get to recognise you and can make you feel welcome.

32. COD 5d widower
33. 19 dn being the only clue I didn’t get as it’s not a four letter word my teenage sons use to express dismay. There are a number of words here that they have never used. They might know radio. When I was their age my father called it a wireless and I called it a tranny, both of which mean different things now.
    I managed to do all bar one in 2 Rotters which is my target having also watched the snooker. Johnny
34. I think Izetti is usually quite easy for a relative beginner like me. And being a crumblie (although not an Oxbridge man) I knew about radio sets, High Table, Dreyfus and togs! But last Friday’s offering by Pedro was monstrous. I picked and poked at it well into Saturday !
35. ….I might know about the DREYFUS case, rather than just knowing of it. There’s no Senior Common Room, or HIGH TABLE, at the University of Life either. I know a little about a lot rather than the reverse, and it’s a great help in Crossword Land.

    No problems in seeing this off within my time limit.

    EGRETS ? I have a few, but, then again, too few to mention….

    FOI SWAP
    LOI HIGH TABLE
    COD WIDOWER
    TIME 4:27

36. Seems against the spirit of this excellent blog to see a few of the Old Boys teasing the newbies. I can’t remember how I joined LJ but maybe the Anons can ask a passing grandchild.

    But thank you very much, bloggers, for all your help and patience. I’ll probably stay in the Slowcoach Club but I do often finish nowadays.

    I don’t know if the Crossword editor reads the blog but I hope so.

    1. Please see my reply to an ‘anon’ currently 5 postings above this one.
37. Another toughie, but at 47:40 not ridiculous by my standards. It was BUMPINESS and GLEE that held me up, otherwise it wouldn’t have been too much over my target 30. Oh, and that Y from DREYFUS which I saw I hadn’t filled in after I had got the other two. Had to restart my watch, but thankfully I saw what was going on with the YE quite quickly. I had no idea what the Dreyfus affair referred to, but I had heard of it somewhere. With regards the comments about these crosswords being biased towards certain sections of society, I’m not moaning about it, but it certainly is the case that you are at an advantage if you went to a public school, learned Latin, played cricket and knew all about life in the armed forces. I guess it was those sort of people who originally set and solved crosswords and so the traditions were set. If the rest of us want to join in, we have to learn the rules. Anyway, thanks all.
    1. Well, they had a prize crossword over at the Guardian which was all Abba songs. I can’t really say that’s what they should do, but any area of life may suddenly appear.
38. DNF. Self-inflicted by having 22a as slip-out which denied 16d Dreyfus. Possibly I was jaded from a disturbed weekend with badly interrupted sleep having a cumulative effect. I should have revisited 22a more rigorously than my lack of stamina allowed. FOI 1a resign; LOI 19d being pretty unconvinced by Gosh. COD 13a Dallas. Disappointing not to finish an Izetti and grateful to the blog for showing me why.
39. This was a puzzle in two halves for me. I zipped through the right hand side of the grid with hardly a hiccough, but then looked at a bare left side and struggled to get going. Once on my way I picked and poked my way lugubriously to the end. All in all must have been about my limit of 60 minutes.
    Surprised to read that quite a few had never heard of Dreyfus since he came up last week in a QC (French author, Zola, J’Accuse). A very defining episode in French politics, national press, anti semitism, the judicial system and the power of the public voice. A gripping read.
    And now to tomorrow.
    Thanks everyone.
40. My knowledge of the Dreyfus affair came from watching the film “The Life of Emile Zola”, with Paul Muni. A good film, but I was about 11 and did not notice the flaws. They are significant, as a quick perusal of the Wiki entry will show.

    As to the QC, DNF. It was 7d GLEE which was the problem. When I read the blog, it was less “Aha!” more “Doh!” So it went.

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