Comments on: Independent 6941 by Dac

By: Paul B

Paul B — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:54:38 +0000

The refuse used to make breeze blocks is ashes of coal, coke or charcoal, so I think the clue is as Wil suspects in his first analysis.

In the building trade ‘breeze’ is synonymous with ‘breeze blocks’, but IMO ‘refuse’ isn’t specific enough to equal ‘ashes of coal’ etc.

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:16:14 +0000

26ac was difficult, I thought. I read it as ‘Quarrel’, and ‘refuse to make building blocks’, with ‘refuse’ a cleverly disguised noun. Perhaps this is not the case, although I suspect that breeze blocks are an amalgam of recycled material; certainly to equate ‘building blocks’ and ‘breeze’ seems wrong.

By: NealH

NealH — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:08:33 +0000

Misspelling tagliatelle as tagliatelli was my downfall on this (should have checked the anagram more carefully). It meant I was completely stumped on 6 down until I went online to check all the crossing answers. I finished it pretty quickly after that, although I thought shieling was a bit obscure (but, then again, I’m not from Scotland). I’d never heard of either quarrel or refuse as alternative meanings for breeze, so only got it from the building blocks bit.

By: Testy

Testy — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:38:22 +0000

Thanks for explaining HALLOWEEN (I’m sure you’re right but I’m not keen on “decorated” as an anagrind) and BREEZE (the quarrel meaning is new to me).