Comments on: Independent 6460 (30-06-07)/Nimrod – Not cobblers!

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:18:47 +0000

Have the puzzle now – the clue for 13 across was “With vocal variation, such as Faldo and Tarbuck’s introduction” Introduction does look like the definition, if you look at the rest of the wording so I think Neil W is right it’s a change in sound. Without thinking too much about it, I thought it meant a change in vowel, but “vocal” does not quite fit this. The enumeration (5) points towards PROEM also.

Re 1/9, I think “last order” was introduced because of the surface context involving a licensee. But “getting in last order before revolution” is just about OK as indicating the anagram with the wording chosen to fit the word. I found the NW and SE corners difficult with 16-letter anagrams and not quite as much connection between the four quadrants of the grid as sometimes.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:27:50 +0000

ELEMI That was a very long clue for a five-letter word, but when I looked up the dictionary it fitted the definition. I’d first pencilled in PROAM but changed to PROEM. Not got the puzzle now, but my recollection is there was something in the clue that gave that instruction (an E for an A). SKA TES I understood as Testy has explained above.

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:42:43 +0000

I reckon 3D is I.E. for “that is” with MEL being latin for honey (“pharmaceutical description” – are all or most pharmaceuticals in latin?) all written up.
I think you’re right with PROEM for 13A (now I’ve looked it up) but I put in pro-am thinking it might be coerced into a non-hypenated word.
Can’t help with 1A/9A.

By: Testy

Testy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:56:34 +0000

I didn’t do this puzzle but I’m guessing 10A is SKA(type of music orignating in the West Indes “WI”) + TES(Times Educational Supplement) not sure about the

3D Pharmaceutical may be E (as in the drug); “description of” might possibly be an anagram indicator and MIEL is French and Spanish for honey???? Not entirely conclusive or satisfactory though!