Comments on: Independent 6630/Dac

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:37:19 +0000

Nmsindy (HEARTH): Yes this is OK too I think, although perhaps it’s a bit loose to define “earth” by “here”. I think either are possible, but the explanation I offered at first seems to me to be the more likely one (not that I’d even thought of yours until you mentioned it).

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:06:11 +0000

HEARTH I read as H (hot) EARTH (i.e. here).

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:35:26 +0000

And it appears that my spelling has gone to pot too (only a C in English Lang, too, alas…)

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:33:23 +0000

Testy, thanks! Must admit, I didn’t check the pronounciation. You can see now why I only managed a C in ‘O’ Level French…

By: Testy

Testy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:07:55 +0000

Jon, have you perhaps instead heard of crudités (crew-dit-ays)?

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:59:30 +0000

12ac (never heard of crudites, and with only the final D had little chance of finding crud from the definition) and 1d / 4d were the ones I didn’t get in the end. 27ac I would have got a lot quicker if I hadn’t written in ‘stamp’ inexplicably for 22d (and was the definition really that cryptic?) 16ac I got without fully untangling the wordplay -’compote’ / ‘soggy’ / ‘crust’ giving me lots to play with.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:59:06 +0000

I had problems in the lower half too, at least until I got the excellent 16a.