Comments on: Independent 6708/Dac

By: Val

Val — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:19:40 +0000

Of course – many thanks.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:13:57 +0000

ALLENDE – ALL ENDE[-d]

By: Val

Val — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:11:30 +0000

President completely destroyed? Not completely (7)

By: neildubya

neildubya — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:59:53 +0000

What was the clue?

By: Val

Val — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:13:51 +0000

I’m still stuck with 20 across – can anyone help! Thanks.

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:05:22 +0000

Some very good clue here as always from Dac, and it’s always nice when I can attribute some random knowledge to the hundreds of hours of my life I’ve spent watching The Simpsons. I’d never heard of Ernest Borgnine until I saw him in the Boy Scouts episode!

By: Testy

Testy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:45:30 +0000

Fair enough. BTW I forgot to say that I thought this was a really good puzzle with, as ever, brilliant surfaces and (as you mentioned) extremely well concealed breaks between wordplay and definitions.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:42:31 +0000

I wondered about ON too but Chambers Online dictionary has “very near to or along the side of something” for the fourth meaning of it and gives the example: “a house on the shore”. So, “in the vicinity of” seems fair to me.

By: Testy

Testy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:36:32 +0000

In 11A I presume ON is indicated by “in the vicinity of”. Is this just because if something is on top of something it will be in the same vicinity or is there a more definitive link between ON and “in the vicinity of”? Not knowing the town I initially assumed that “in the vicinity of” would indicate BY and had considered pencilling in LONG TEABY.

By: neildubya

neildubya — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:28:44 +0000

24a I put CREAM HORN (“pastry concoction”), which is RE (“about”),(HAM)* in CORN. The Reveal feature in the online version confirms the answer.