Jumbo 1280

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1. I have been able to retrieve my submission for this puzzle too! Three errors in 54:14. Two of these errors are down to the really frustrating delay, which was as long as 40 seconds before my typing appeared on the screen, FOURTENN and CARESSIGG, and also the fact that I can’t view the whole puzzle on my laptop screen and have to use the side bars to move around. The other error was that I had DECOMMODE instead of DECOMPOSE. I guess I’d lost the will to live by that point as I think it was my last one in. I would put a third of my time down to waiting for a response to my typing. Infuriating!. This all distracts from the actual crossword, which is a shame, as I think I would have enjoyed it otherwise. Thanks setter and Mohn.
2. Yes, I found I could retrieve my solution as well .. orl correct I’m pleased to say, but sadly I can no longer remember much about it. If they only had 12 jumbos, and repeated them endlessly, I probably would never notice.

   I do remember that I didn’t know astragal, and had to cross fingers and then look it up. Whenever I find an unknown word I always look it up in the OED.. it helps to imprint it. Having done so for fifty years now, I don’t have to do it so often these days

3. I was wondering if the painfully slow reaction to my keystrokes was due to my brother’s laptop, but evidently not; I suppose that’s some sort of relief. DNK ‘stand-off’; barely knew ASTRAGAL; I knew it was a word, probably would have said it was some kind of hat if asked. Thanks, John, for explaining 41ac. LOI 6d; I was sure the first word was DO, only after ages thought it might not be an English expression. I would have thought that ‘rage’ is exactly what SEETHE does not mean; seething involves suppressing one’s rage, not expressing it. On edit: I forgot that my brother has the autocorrect option unsuppressed (why?), and that Mohn was turned into John; but isn’t that your name? Or did someone else’s comment once get autocorrected? Thanks in any case

   Edited at 2017-09-02 07:11 pm (UTC)

   1. I’m surprised more people on the forum haven’t mentioned the lag. Granted, my machine is 7 years’ old and my Internet connection only average, but I can play computer games on it that have complicated graphics and audio, so why it would struggle with a mere crossword app I don’t know.

      I thought seethe had the same meaning as you did, but it didn’t bother me at the time because it seemed reasonable that one could still be raging internally without necessarily expressing it. ASTRAGAL was a wordplay-only construction for me.

      I am indeed a John. At my old workplace, usernames were allocated via taking the first 5 letters of one’s surname and then adding one’s initial – my username on TftT is a spin on that. Johns are as common as muck around here, though – I think there are at least half-a-dozen either blogging or commenting.

4. Thanks Mohn for parsing CANTATA,which l had from wordplay and checkers,quite clever.COD 41d.
   ONG’ARA,
   NAIROBI.

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