Indy 6543/Phi
Posted by John on October 5th, 2007
Solving time: 22 mins 38 secs. I’m sure there’s a Nina there somewhere, there being all those “loose ends” round the outside, and much of the bottom line saying FOOLS, but I can’t see it. It must be quite difficult to produce a grid in which there are loose ends at the outside yet not contravening the “rule” about never having a word with more than 50% of its letters unchecked.
| Across | |
|---|---|
| 7 | WHEE(L) |
| 8/1 | Cryptic definition, I think. Can’t quite categorise this one. |
| 11 | (IF FED)* R |
| 12 | MAN TRA(P) |
| 13 | TIE [= Bond] BREAK [=rest] |
| 15 | (TRIBAL REVERIE)* |
| 18 | (PEDANTIC)* |
| 21 | L in (MODES)< |
| 22 | HORN I N |
| 25 | (A IS)< ROUND (ANTAMAR) |
| 26 | E YES; central areas as in”eye of the storm” |
| Down | |
| 3 | (G PLAN) in GET* |
| 4 | (EG DOTS)< |
| 5 | (RE FLIP)<. Nicedefinition. |
| 6 | I(SOLATE)D L(ODG)E |
| 9 | Presumably a crypticdefinition, but I don’t really get it. Is Phi saying that tohim it is particularly shocking that the US put people todeath at all? |
| 16 | V(CRIES)*AL |
| 19 | T O around (TUNE)< |
| 20 | DO around (LOTS)<. Is it inelegant to have two clues of similar type next to eachother? |
| 23 | Hidden reversed |
October 5th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
9 Down – yes, that’s the way I read it with death penalties abolished in many other countries. Having seen a Nina that was not there and missed one with Phi in recent weeks, I’m reluctant to be dogmatic about whether there is one here. I did notice FOOLS along the end quite early on, but can see nothing else.
October 6th, 2007 at 8:06 am
Didn’t keep this one, but it did have “Great minds think alike” near the top, so ‘NEVER DIFFER’ may be in there as well as FOOLS.
October 6th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
It’s, ‘… fools seldom differ’, and SELDOM and DIFFER appear in the grid. So FOOLS on the bottom row looks like a deliberate Nina.