Comments on: Independent 6298/Nimrod

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fgbp — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:25:13 +0000

A brilliant puzzle I thought.
The clues to “exercise bike” and “fall on hard times” in particular.
Thanks Nimrod!

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nmsindy — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:19:40 +0000

Thanks for that. That’s fair enough – “hear of” = tolerate say the dicts. I’d thought only in the sense of “hear of” = “hear about” when looking at the crossword.

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eimi — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:18:08 +0000

Hereof is indeed a homonym, indicated by “audience’s” for hear of in the sense “I wouldn’t hear of it” – an admittedly rather loose definition of stand.

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nmsindy — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:08:42 +0000

Re 8 Down “Concerned with this” is definition of HEREOF but I don’t get the wordplay “audience’s stand” – a homophone perhaps.

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petebiddlecombe — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:04:54 +0000

Of the fifteens, I only got IN THE ALTOGETHER on first look, so this was a struggle at first, though it sped up later and ended up as roughly “Nimrod par”.

FRIDAY: “Now the menu has fish” is the definition – ref. the Catholic / “high church” culinary tradition which lives on in some schoool and canteen menus. Friday is “Man of Isle” if you remember Robinson Crusoe.

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nmsindy — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:04:11 +0000

Friday refers to Man Friday (Robinson Crusoe) I think. Hard, 39 minutes – YOU BET YOUR BOOTS was new to me as was UNA CORDA. Re the hidden clue – I think there’s no problem with punctuation in the gap. All very Nimrod – to use Eimi’s phrase once.