Comments on: Independent 6532/Monk http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 09:32:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: brian seddon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5200 brian seddon Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:08:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5200 Thanks Neil, never in a month of Sundays…..

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5199 neildubya Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:04:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5199 Hi Brian

11A It’s EATS UP = “Each” is EA, a TUP is a ram and “oats ultimately” is the last letter of “oats” (which goes inside TUP).

Neil

]]> By: brian seddon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5197 brian seddon Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:54:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5197 Hi Neil

I look forward to your weekly explanations as inevitably I’m left with a couple of answers I can’t get or answers that I can’t understand. This week toerag and 11 across had me beat….

11a Each ram munching oats ultimately does this ?a?s ?p Could you please enlighten me?

Cheers Brian

]]> By: Chris http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5189 Chris Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:24:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5189 Weirdly, “Sword of Damocles” was also an answer in the same weekend’s Everyman crossword. I was looking at both crosswords simultaneously and, without having solved either, it occurred to me that the answer might be the same for both (same number of letters, obviously, and similarish definitions). Thus, I solved one and was able to write it in in the other!

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5186 Testy Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:58:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/09/28/independent-6532monk/#comment-5186 Does “essential” fairly indicate the middle letters?

To my mind any combination of the letters in the phrase “odds and ends” are essential to it. Is there a meaning of the word essential or essence which specifically means middle or central?

Otherwise I think it’s a little weak. Having to spot what could be a sequence of any 5 letters in a phrase and then anagram them is going a bit too far.

It would be OK to indicate a hidden word such as “Essentially redS AND Yellows make this colour” but a hidden anagram?

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