Comments on: Independent 6,321/Phi – nice ‘n’ easy does it

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loonapick — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:32:14 +0000

nmsindy – you’re right of course – I’ll amend the post

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nmsindy — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:28:43 +0000

I read 11 Down differently – (A PUTT I)* + DE TEST = hate.

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eimi — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:09:29 +0000

Thanks to my colleague Quixote for the explanation of newtons, as I was a complete duffer at physics, but, whether a weight or a force, they don’t feature in the wordplay for 27A. The skilled overseas trader possibly is IMPORT ACE, carrying N (new), the definition of IMPORTANCE being weight.

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Quixote — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:51:06 +0000

In defence of my colleague: a weight is a force in this ex-physicist’s book – the force exerted on a mass by a gravitational field, in fact – so the newton can be a unit of weight.

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MikeS — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:25:51 +0000

A niggle – re 27A – N (Newton) is a force, not a weight, and the clue would still work.

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Wil Ransome — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:00:05 +0000

EROS

As usual a nice crossword from Phi, but I am a little unsure about 24A. As it stands, “love’s rebuffed with pains” could lead to either EROS or SORE, and the only way we know which is the correct one is to look at the checking letters; the apostrophe doesn’t seem to me to force a decision. I thought this sort of thing was wrong, and one should be able to know unequivocally what the answer is. Or am I missing something?