Comments on: Independent N0 6969 by Math

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:46:14 +0000

I’m sorry, I’ll read that again (damn keyboard!): A hat is worn on top of the head.

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:45:10 +0000

And as for, “Whatever next?” A at is worn on top of the head!

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:44:25 +0000

5dn. A earring is worn below the ear. Okay it’s attached but for a pendant earring the important bit sits below the ear.

Nina: I don’t notice the puzzle numbers generally, and particularly as I do the puzzle online, so thanks for pointing that out. I think you are probably right.

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:02:08 +0000

Didn’t get 1 dn or 19d. But a great clue for 22a!

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:28:26 +0000

I didn’t like “Greeting’s” in 9ac, although I suppose it is just about OK. Why not simply “Greetings”?

5dn provides a new wordplay meaning of ‘wearing’. ‘A wearing B’ should in my opinion mean that A is inside B, like the wearer of an overcoat, but it also is sometimes used to mean that A is outside B, by some logic that I don’t quite follow. Now we have ‘A is below B in a down clue’. Whatever next?

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:00:01 +0000

I’ll have to admit that thought occurred to me too, but I decided not to mention it at lunchtime…

By: Puck

Puck — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:32:25 +0000

Now that it’s well past the watershed… and at the risk of seeing innuendo where there is none… is there perhaps an intended connection between the Nina (Dinner for Two twice) and the number of the puzzle? If so, well cheeky! If not, a fun coincidence for the open-minded….and apologies in advance in case anyone is offended!

Whatever, I did enjoy this puzzle. I liked both 12ac and 15ac, and Dr Dre was somewhere at the back of my memory for 1dn. However I didn’t know ‘mallee’ at 19dn, so I have another word in the memory banks, for now at least.

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:53:35 +0000

In 25 you have a typo, the anag is less one R.

I wonder who the dinner was for and whether it was on the 14th?

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:38:07 +0000

A nice puzzle, and, as you say, a lot easier than most of those which have appeared recently in the Independent. For 15ac, I assume you mean “jests”, rather than “gests”. Thanks for explaining the “Dre” in 1dn – I didn’t know this, although I’d guessed the answer was “dreamy”.