Comments on: Independent 6625/Nestor http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 18:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: BrianR http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-13222 BrianR Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:17:50 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-13222 Found the responses re 12a interesting.

Didn’t find any problems with “wun rild”.
(The ‘ild’ is intended to be pronounced as in wild.)

I feel that Ben had the right idea for 10d.

Sorry about the delay.
6625 only appeared in South Australia’s “The Advertiser” on 2/2/08.

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11555 Testy Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:36:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11555 I am and I do.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11554 nmsindy Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:35:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11554 Re Testy’s question at comment 6, they’d rhyme with ‘son’ for me. But I take the point about accents differing.

]]> By: Fletch http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11550 Fletch Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:10:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11550 I’m guessing you must both be northerners. Do you pronounce cud to rhyme with could as well?

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11548 Testy Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:04:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11548 Like Richard, I thought the Spoonerism was a bit strained but, like homophones, I accepted that in some accents it might work. However, I would have expected that most people would not pronounce “one” and “run” in the same way.

Nmsindy, is it that you pronounce “one” and “run” so that they both rhyme with “on” or do they both rhyme with “son”?

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11540 nmsindy Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:13:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11540 I thought it was OK – I’d rhyme ‘one’ with ‘run’. Had a quick look in Collins and they give same vowel pronunciation for both.

]]> By: Richard Palmer http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11526 Richard Palmer Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:56:28 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11526 Is the Spoonerism in 12ac correct? I would pronounce one to rhyme with con so it doesn’t work for me.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11488 nmsindy Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:58:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11488 Yes, I was faced with the same perplexity, but I think Ben’s explanation is probably right (and that’s very inventive from Nestor). I liked the linking of AJAR with DAYLIGHT in what I found was quite an easy puzzle compared with some earlier Nestor Indys.

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11484 neildubya Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:16:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11484 I think you might be on to something there. It would certainly explain the presence of the exclamation mark at the end of the clue, indicating that something dodgy/surprising is happening. It’s certainly an original idea.

]]> By: Ben Sandford Smith http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11483 Ben Sandford Smith Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:12:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/01/10/independent-6625nestor/#comment-11483 I’m not 100% sure about this but I think the second u is given by slicing the top off a circle like taking the top off an egg. You get a u shape left if you take the top off a circle? What do you think?

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