Comments on: Independent 6324 / Virgilius – Hello Sailor! http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/23/independent-6324-virgilius-hello-sailor/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 13:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: <![CDATA[nmsindy]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/23/independent-6324-virgilius-hello-sailor/#comment-776 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:26:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=217#comment-776 Yes, I quickly looked LAZER up on the day and didn’t find it.

]]> By: <![CDATA[tilsit]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/23/independent-6324-virgilius-hello-sailor/#comment-775 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:15:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=217#comment-775 I hadn’t seen the word “lazer” before, hence my feeling that it was almost an artificilly created agent-noun.

]]> By: <![CDATA[petebiddlecombe]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/23/independent-6324-virgilius-hello-sailor/#comment-774 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:36:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=217#comment-774 Don’t understand how laser/lazer is dodgy. But then someone at Times for the Times reckoned “NICKED” and the first syllable of “NICTATE” sounded different yesterday. Maybe I’m going deaf…

]]> By: <![CDATA[rightback]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/23/independent-6324-virgilius-hello-sailor/#comment-773 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:03:32 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=217#comment-773 12ac: Is this homophone dodgy? I pronounce ‘laser’ and ‘lazer’ identically.

23ac: Nine is the next square after four (as per the clue), not three!

Agree with your comments re ABSINTH and ONTARIO, but maybe 17dn would have been even better with a reference to Matthews or Mortensen (or even Collymore)?

]]> By: <![CDATA[nmsindy]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/01/23/independent-6324-virgilius-hello-sailor/#comment-772 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:40:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=217#comment-772 21 Down To tank is to beat so it’s TANKER all right, I think.

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