Comments on: Independent 6472 (14-07-07)/Nimrod

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:14:30 +0000

17D I suggest “lithium or iron” is a definition. As you say, their chemical symbols are Li and Fe, either of which are half LIFE.

10A COMING. I remember thinking “what’s projected time for entry” gave CO(MIN)G where “time” is MIN and “what’s projected” is COG, but now I realise I was imagining the tooth of a cog as “what’s projected” rather than the cog itself, so maybe that isn’t the intended construction.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:42:31 +0000

‘Writer has wife is back’?

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:06:36 +0000

The second apostrophe on wife’s did worry me a bit – the clue would, I think, have been quite OK without it (just simply “wife”) but is can be read as wife’s = wife is back so I think it’s OK.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:00:53 +0000

Yup – definitely two apostrophes.

The “<” didn’t come out probably because WordPress thought it was the start of an html tag.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:00:16 +0000

…SRM reversed. My little reversal ‘sideways vee’ didn’t come out.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:58:55 +0000

Are you sure both Ss are apostrophised?

It’s definitely meant to be ODE in ME plus SRM

By: neildubya

neildubya — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:57:52 +0000

Yes, you’re right – I see it now.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:47:41 +0000

MESODERM I think it cryptically reads writer (ME) has (=’s) MRS (back) i.e.ME S (ODE) RM. “has” is, I think, an internal link word

By: petebiddlecombe

petebiddlecombe — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:33:12 +0000

I enjoyed the theme but also had some hazy moments with the detail. Uniat(e) is just one of those words you pick up from xwds, so no shame in missing it. Feeding U?I?T into an xwd cheating device will show you why.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:59:42 +0000

MESODERM – but the clue has “writer’s wife’s back“. If you take out ODE you have MRS EM not MRS ME.