So ‘Turpitude means ‘lethargy’, DA? (Quick crossword, 6/1)
Have you contrived this new portmanteau word perhaps combining ‘torpor’ and ‘lassitude’ (the latter containing precisely the right number of letters to correctly solve the clue). In any case, I decry your ‘vile and depraved act’ in supplying a misleading clue.
David Johnston,
Could be that, yet again, there’s an error in the solution, both on-line and in the print version. This happened with the cryptic recently. As the U doesn’t intersect with anything else, it looks like it was meant to be O. I wonder about the type-setter’s spellchecker. Turpitude trumps torpitude?
Looks like it. Trust DA to intend that ‘torpitude’, in most dictionaries deemed to be obsolete, should have been the word.
So ‘Turpitude means ‘lethargy’, DA? (Quick crossword, 6/1)
Have you contrived this new portmanteau word perhaps combining ‘torpor’ and ‘lassitude’ (the latter containing precisely the right number of letters to correctly solve the clue). In any case, I decry your ‘vile and depraved act’ in supplying a misleading clue.
David Johnston,
Could be that, yet again, there’s an error in the solution, both on-line and in the print version. This happened with the cryptic recently. As the U doesn’t intersect with anything else, it looks like it was meant to be O. I wonder about the type-setter’s spellchecker. Turpitude trumps torpitude?
Looks like it. Trust DA to intend that ‘torpitude’, in most dictionaries deemed to be obsolete, should have been the word.