Comments on: Independent 6744 by Radian http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 14:49:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28836 nmsindy Wed, 28 May 2008 21:33:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28836 I think Radian is a relatively new setter – I think this is only the second Radian Indy puzzle. Not sure if Radian appears elsewhere.

]]> By: Homonorthwestus http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28832 Homonorthwestus Wed, 28 May 2008 20:54:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28832 Radian doesn’t appear in the guide to setters, does s/he appear elsewhere..?

]]> By: Radian http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28804 Radian Wed, 28 May 2008 16:20:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28804 Thought so. Thanks but no thanks – not unless I’ve 2/3 weeks to spare on the trot. They’re altogether different barrels of fish.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28800 nmsindy Wed, 28 May 2008 16:02:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28800 I’d have in mind as advanced themed puzzles the Inquisitor series in the Saturday Indy, Enigmatic Variations (EV) in the Sunday Telegraph, and of course the Listener in the Times every Saturday.

]]> By: Radian http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28797 Radian Wed, 28 May 2008 15:09:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28797 Nmsindy: What’s an advanced theme puzzle?

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28795 Colin Blackburn Wed, 28 May 2008 14:42:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28795 S’okoy, just got it TAPERED -> REDTAPE. Doh!

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28794 Colin Blackburn Wed, 28 May 2008 14:41:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28794 I have to admit that still don’t understand RED TAPE even with Radian’s explanation! Could some explain it a little more fully for me?

Otherwise an excellent puzzled. I too saw BRNO immediately and worked backwards via DRNO to BOND.

Did you know that Stephanie Flanders, the BBC’s economic editor, is FLANDERS’ daughter?

]]> By: Ali http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28792 Ali Wed, 28 May 2008 14:35:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28792 As a lifelong Bond fan, I enjoyed this one a lot. For reasons unknown (and this is the honest truth) I was thinking of Moonraker when I walked to the bus this morning, and 26D was one of the first clues I looked at!
Some really good stuff in here I thought, particuarly the reference to Felix Leiter’s shark attack (which, having never read Live And Let Die, I always assumed was a Licence To Kill moment!). Nice Jordan clue too!

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28790 nmsindy Wed, 28 May 2008 14:14:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28790 Unsuspected riches in there, Radian – would have been excellent material for an advanced themed puzzle.

]]> By: Radian http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/05/28/independent-6744-by-radian/#comment-28785 Radian Wed, 28 May 2008 13:27:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1589#comment-28785 NmSindy: Thanks for the compliment – glad you enjoyed it.
1 Ac. Flanders is where Flemings come from. A possible ref to Moll would have exceeded my editor’s quota of suggestiveness
4 old chestnut – tape + red
8 poor Felix lost an arm and a leg, making him slightly less effective than Bond
11 Fleming is alleged to have played a part in the conspiracy to persuade Hess to defect
27 Fleming got his hero’s name from author of Birds of the West Indies
28 smutty minds think alike, Neildubya
30 Eton was Fleming’s alma mater

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