Comments on: Independent 6769/Nimrod

By: eimi

eimi — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:50:25 +0000

That’s a bit unfortunate. I can only assume that some eagle-eyed sub, unversed in the ways of Nimrod, spotted the unusual typesetting and decided to ‘correct’ it.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:40:55 +0000

I think you’re right, Richard – I’ve just looked at clue on the website. In my paper, though, the r was not in bold type.

By: Richard Heald

Richard Heald — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:49:02 +0000

10Ac: I think I’ve figured out how this one works – the defn part is ‘unwise’, and the wordplay part is meant to be ‘r in bold (= impudent)’. One of those love-it-or-hate-it clues.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:42:32 +0000

Apologies, Testy, you say all this in explanation 1.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:39:25 +0000

POINT OF NO RETURN I got the answer long before the explanation; my guess was point = full stop (after ‘here’) then ON FO (reversed) as you say.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:34:40 +0000

I’d say the IN CUB is on a tor, so looking down at Devon (where all those tors are).

By: Testy

Testy — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:48:48 +0000

I’m afraid I lost patience with this and gave up on it completely, but I guess that 1A is perhaps POINT being indicated by the full stop and the OF NO RETURN being as you suggest (i.e. coming from “on F.O.”).

11A “hurriedly”, an anagram indicator???

13A ALIMONIES are allowances, hence “They’re allowed” maybe.

2D “Location of course” is the def (as in where a course of a meal will end up), “playing Chinese International” is IN TEST IN E(ast).