Comments on: Independent 6651/Nestor http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 09:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14562 Paul B Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:55:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14562 Monk’s the bullet-proof one.

http://www.bulletproofmonk.com/

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14537 nmsindy Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:54:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14537 NEVADA Phew! It baffled me too, but, I knew, it being Nestor, that there would be a bullet-proof explanation. Thanks, Eimi.

]]> By: Jon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14534 Jon Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:40:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14534 And that’ll teach me not to go with my first instincts as regards the answer!

]]> By: fgbp http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14532 fgbp Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:28:56 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14532 Ah! There I was reversing NEVADA inside ST and RD etc to get a type of ROUE (!)

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14531 neildubya Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:23:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14531 I doubt I would ever have spotted that.

]]> By: eimi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14529 eimi Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:11:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14529 It is Nevada and it’s extremely difficult: reverse NEVADA inside ROUE and you get …

]]> By: Jon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14521 Jon Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:55:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14521 It’s the ‘back in two ways’ bit I was wondering about…

]]> By: neildubya http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14520 neildubya Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:52:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14520 Still doesn’t look right though does it? I mean, there’s nothing telling us to turn “rake” into KERA. That said I can’t do a thing with NEVADA so KERALA seems more likely at the moment.

]]> By: Jon http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14519 Jon Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:43:09 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14519 21ac I went for KERALA, an Indian state…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala

I thought for a long time about putting NEVADA in, but couldn’t crack the wordplay.

So plumped for KERA from ‘rake’ = ‘roue’, and LA as in ‘AL’ (Alabama) back…

We’ll see if I’m wrong tomorrow…

Thought 19+20d was a very nice touch!

]]> By: fgbp http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14511 fgbp Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:11:52 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/02/15/independent-6651nestor/#comment-14511 FORTUNE TELLING is FORTE + ILL rev + NG about TUNE
OVERSEW I’ve only just seen a week on, and it’s O(B)VERSE + W
NEVADA I remin baffled by, assuming it’s the answer

I can’t believe you never “told the time” with a dandelion clock tho :-) If you took say five blows to blow the fluff off it was 5 o’clock 6 and it was 6 o’clock and so on. Far more thrilling than a playstation …

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