Comments on: Independent 6,859/Nimrod

By: davey b

davey b — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:12:58 +0000

16 down. Popular piece of music, up-and-coming one receives network coverage.Is the ans.MESSIAH? If so can anyone please explain.

By: Al Streatfield

Al Streatfield — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:26:58 +0000

Re: 7. VOYAGE can apply to any form of transport, so is definitely an alternative to FLIGHT. Like Nmsindy I put in VOYAGE without thinking it might be wrong. This is precisely why such a cryptic definition is so inadequate, in my opinion.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:53:39 +0000

Re comment 6, I’d not really have a difficulty where the matter is resolved by crossing letters, esp with a cryptic definition. Re 7, there are also Virgin trains, I think, so I think it did not absolutely have to be ‘flight’

By: Richard Palmer

Richard Palmer — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:54:56 +0000

It’s MAIDEN FLIGHT not MAIDEN VOYAGE as Virgin is an airline not a shipping company.

By: Al Streatfield

Al Streatfield — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:40:16 +0000

Shouldn’t the answer to 20 be: “As the crow flies, helping to get to Dublin earlier” be LINEARLY, not LINEAR?

Didn’t like MAIDEN FLIGHT because, as NMS Indy says, there was no way of cryptically distinguishing FLIGHT from VOYAGE

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:34:39 +0000

TEMPTER I think T cross is a tau cross. Was slowed by writing in VOYAGE and got the PMQT only at the very end. Hard, but not as hard as some by Nimrod, I thought.

By: Mick h

Mick h — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:35:45 +0000

Tough but good. AVOCATION was new to me, as was PLUMBAGO. Loved that, though, and PMQs.
I tried to make 2dn (b)OOZE(r) (“I’m ever so ‘umble, he oozed/declared”) but it wouldn’t wash.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:25:51 +0000

I found it difficult too. HARD SHOULDER at 24ac was the first one I got; then worked slowly up from there.

I thought 6dn was good too, I read net as the fishes place of no return.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:20:22 +0000

9ac is an anagram of SOME UNTRIED MERLIN, with NO edited out.

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:20:13 +0000

4D Suggestion: First = No. 1 ; class = SET ; article with no stuffing = T[h]E