Comments on: Independent 6318 by Virgilius – couples http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/16/independent-6318-by-virgilius-couples/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 11:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: <![CDATA[petebiddlecombe]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/16/independent-6318-by-virgilius-couples/#comment-721 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:48:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=194#comment-721 Pibroch: I guess it’s just one of those words you pick up somewhere. At least it’s easier to spell than the authentic “Pìobaireachd”. At school, our music master once decided to get everyone in the class who played an instrument to do a quick demo. I don’t think he’d realised that the class contained a bagpiper. Proper Scottish pipes played in a classroom are probably the loudest thing I’ve ever heard.

]]> By: <![CDATA[nmsindy]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/16/independent-6318-by-virgilius-couples/#comment-720 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:14:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=194#comment-720 There was some song from way back – Andy Stewart (Scottish), I think – from which I remembered “Pibroch sad to play” – so I got it straightaway! May be a generation thing.

]]> By: <![CDATA[neildubya]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/16/independent-6318-by-virgilius-couples/#comment-719 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:23:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=194#comment-719 I couldn’t get it either. Should have had some easy wordplay I think, even though it’s in COED.

]]> By: <![CDATA[rightback]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/16/independent-6318-by-virgilius-couples/#comment-718 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:00:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=194#comment-718 19 PIBROCH Cryptic definition, though not far off a straight one, if you were familiar with it.

And completely impossible if you weren’t! I wasted so much time on this with P-B—- thinking I should surely be able to get it, but eventually left it to the end and gave up on it having decided I definitely didn’t know the word.

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