http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/02/independent-6333nimrod-enigmatic/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 19:51:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/02/independent-6333nimrod-enigmatic/#comment-897 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:32:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=244#comment-897 Yes, that’s good for ESSEN. Re ERNIE WISE, I think the “legs” reference is to legs eleven (II) in bingo, say.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/02/independent-6333nimrod-enigmatic/#comment-899 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:52:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=244#comment-899 Nimrod has lived up to another of his pseudonyms, obviously, and puzzled a few people. ESSEN is transliterations of the bridge partners S and N. The ultimate promotion of a father would be to a saint or TO A ST. As Chambers points out, an emigre was originally a royalist fleeing the French revolution.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/02/02/independent-6333nimrod-enigmatic/#comment-898 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:21:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=244#comment-898 I think, in ESSEN, it means all the letters are bridge players. Don’t understand TOAST either. A curiosity was the USELESS crossing with uSELESs with “ineffectual” used in the clue.

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