Comments on: Independent 6289 by Virgilius – Poets aplenty! http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/12/independent-6289-by-virgilius-poets-aplenty/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: <![CDATA[petebiddlecombe]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/12/independent-6289-by-virgilius-poets-aplenty/#comment-403 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:42:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=117#comment-403 Checking is part of it: this one has 50% checking in every answer in the Times manner. The other aspect is interconnections between parts of the grid. If you can draw a line isolating a large part of the grid from the rest, which only goes through one white square (or two white squares which are “symmetry buddies”), that’s usually counted as a weakness. Yesterday’s Indie grid was a bit weak in this way – without the 4 12-letter answers, you’ve got 4 mini-puzzles. You can’t find a set of linking answers like this in today’s grid.

]]> By: <![CDATA[neildubya]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/12/independent-6289-by-virgilius-poets-aplenty/#comment-402 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:19:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=117#comment-402 Grid construction is something of a blind spot for me – could you explain what you mean by “impeccable”? Is it basically to do with the amount of checking for each answer?

Took me a while to spot Kipling too, probably because I don’t usually think of him as a poet (can’t stand “If…”)

]]> By: <![CDATA[petebiddlecombe]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2006/12/12/independent-6289-by-virgilius-poets-aplenty/#comment-401 Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:10:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=117#comment-401 Another gem in the Virgilius thematic series. Nice and easy, so kicked myself for not spotting Kipling at 1A immediately, which might have given a very quick time. And as well as the other words being “ordinary cryptic material”, the grid was impeccable too.

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