Comments on: Independent 6562/Nimrod

By: neildubya

neildubya — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:57:39 +0000

Yes – I got that “light” would refer to the lighthouse. My complaint was that the two halves of the clue didn’t really seem to belong together. Clunky, if you will.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:48:39 +0000

EDDYSTONE ROCKS Maybe it’s taken as read, but I thought the lights were the lights of the lighthouse helping you to avoid the rocks. The rest I did not understand tho did use Google to find the Eddy Grant connection but it only took me part of the way. Thanks for explaining NOTED. I’d now idea why, though I got it right from the definition.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:18:05 +0000

It would, but “man” is part of the wordplay, not the definition.

By: Testy

Testy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:15:33 +0000

P.S. wouldn’t “my sister’s young [man].” be my nephew?

By: Testy

Testy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:10:23 +0000

I haven’t seen the clue for 8D. I’m assuming it was something like

Ready to exchange reports of the beating of Hearts by a lower division side.

In which case the “reports” is needed as the answer is a homophone for “POUNDS STIRLING” Stirling Albion FC being in a lower division (Scottish First Division) than Hearts (SPL).

By: fgbp

fgbp — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:08:05 +0000

I think “reports of” is a more accurate way of indicating “pounds”.
The surface reading for EDDYSTONE ROCKS I take to be a self-deprecatory statement by a group of Eddy Grant fans, perhaps embarrassed at their guilty purchase, whose comment about “seeing the light” can mean one of two things:
a) they realise their mistake and hope that other, wiser souls will consequently give them a wide berth
b) other souls who walk in Eddy-Grant-hating darkness might one day seen the error of their ways and no longer berate them for their appalling taste. They could, of course, pester them to borrow the record, but I guess they haven’t thought of that

By: conradcork

conradcork — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:03:45 +0000

8a. Pen is an estate or plantation, in the Caribbean or the West Indies – according to which edition of Chambers you consult.

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:54:39 +0000

11A It is BOWER that is enclosed in THEY and a Bower is “a lady’s boudoir in a medieval castle”

8D While I agree that the clue still works if you remove the “reports of the” I liked the double-definition of “reports of the beating of hearts” indicating “pounds”, as well as “beating of Hearts by lower division side” for the whole answer.

9A I thought “What resulted in Poetry in Motion” for NO-TED was a fantastic (part) clue.