Independent 6542 by Nimrod
Posted by nmsindy on October 4th, 2007
Built around a 41-letter anagram. Solving time: 52 mins.
* = anagram < = reversed
ACROSS
9 HISTORIAN (to an Irish)*
11/13/16 CANT GET AWAY TO MARRY YOU TODAY MY WIFE WONT LET ME left at the church song. * (first 41 letters of clue)
22 WINNING ON POINTS I think
DOWN
1 O (VISA) C
2 A T (TORN) EY Yet<
5 Saul BELLOW
6 ANTONY MY Antony and C
8 HA-HA A ditch
13 M OWN D OWN MD = managing director
14 RAF FLING
16 D (UTCH H) OE
21 HIGH NOON cf nigh Hoon
October 5th, 2007 at 1:28 am
Thanks Niall for covering the blog.
I struggled with the big anagram for a while until I remembered a previous Indy Mag puzzle by a certain Tilsit which wason the same theme!
October 5th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Nimrod at his exquisite best. I do believe he IS going to come up with that solitary 105-letter anagram across clue yet!
October 5th, 2007 at 11:07 am
22 is WINNING ON POINTS. It alludes cryptically to how each of the sports is one, points of swords and points of the compass make sense. The cross-country one I’m less sure about though as a sport is in points that count but not in any cryptic sense.
As an orienteer I’d question the orienteering allusion since many top orienteers rarely look at their compasses!
Colin – a poor orienteer who looks all to often but rarely wins.
October 5th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
I didn’t do this but wonder if the cross-country reference might be to point-to-point racing.
October 30th, 2007 at 4:43 am
6d threw me, the answer should be antonyms, I have searched word finders and cannot find ‘antonymy’ anywhere.
Patrick.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Patrick: ANTONYMY is right and it’s in Chambers (under antonym). You can also find it in the Chambers Word Wizards here:
http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/wordgames/word_wizards/wwizards.py/main