Comments on: Independent 6623/Virgilius http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/ 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/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11416 nmsindy Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:43:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11416 Luce: It was a new word to me too – got it working backwards from LUCRE, but it’s in both Concise OED and Collins.

]]> By: Jon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11413 Jon Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:01:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11413 Thanks – both Google and Chambers online failed me when I look up Luce.

Jon

]]> By: Jos http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11412 Jos Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:57:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11412 Beaten to it!

]]> By: Jos http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11411 Jos Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:56:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11411 Hi Jon,

15d – a luce is another name for a pike, so lucre’s correct.
22ac – id est latin, part of Mississippi destroyed.

Cheers

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11410 neildubya Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:54:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11410 15d – LUC(R)E is right. A luce is a fully grown pike.

22a – ID EST (or i.e.), hidden in “MississippI DESTroyed”.

]]> By: Jon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11408 Jon Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:34:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11408 Unfamiliar phrases such as 14ac and 29ac made this a tricky one for me. Gave up about three quarters complete before coming here.

15d and 22ac have got me stumped. The former I think might be lucre, but can’t explain why, apart from the R for river?

Jon

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11405 neildubya Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:07:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11405 Put me down for PRO RATA – although I can’t say that I wrote it in completely confidently. And it was 20d rather than 17d which pointed me to my mistake.

Tougher than the average V I thought.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11404 nmsindy Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:43:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11404 PS Did anyone else confidently write in PRO RATA first for the PER CENT one? Getting SECRETE (I agree it’s a double definition) showed me I was wrong.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11403 nmsindy Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:38:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/08/independent-6623virgilius/#comment-11403 MASSEUSES is USE in MASSES, I think. The US Supreme Court may have nine judges. Great puzzle as always from Virgilius.

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