Comments on: Independent 6616 by Nimrod http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 01:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10843 nmsindy Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:20:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10843 It can indeed – I did not spot that! Many thanks, Peter. Pity that, probably for space reasons, the solution today in the Indy was in list format.

]]> By: petebiddlecombe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10841 petebiddlecombe Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:12:53 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10841 More theme: OUT WITH THE OLD can be found on one of the main diagonals.

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10734 Testy Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:22:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10734 My reading of 26 is that it is a kind of &lit on the assumption that Earls (having had an aristocratic upbringing)were once really spoilt kids.

Regarding 1D I agree that NOHOW means the opposite of “under any conditions” and the only phrase that I can think where it might be construed as being synonymous is something like “no way, not nohow” but here it is actually a being used incorrectly as a double negative.

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10679 neildubya Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:08:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10679 CARMEL – there may well be others but the CA one became famous as it’s the one where Clint Eastwood was elected mayor.

]]> By: Richard Heald http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10677 Richard Heald Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:00:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10677 22dn – looks like the wordplay here is N(= Northern) in EIRE (= Ireland) reversed.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10675 nmsindy Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:43:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10675 Actually, I’d thought of that possibility for Carmel, but a quick Google turned up a town in Indiana as the top hit.

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10672 neildubya Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:16:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/31/independent-6616-by-nimrod/#comment-10672 The only one I can help with is 4d – Carmel is a town in California or IN CA. I’m also baffled by other clues you mention. I think you’re right that 7d doesn’t have a definition.

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