Comments on: Independent 6970 by Nimrod http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 06:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Allan_C http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-69019 Allan_C Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:16:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-69019 Thanks, Nmsindy. And I’ve got the literature bit now – a herbal can be a book about herbs or with herbal recipes.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-69016 nmsindy Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:56:39 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-69016 Dicts in general give simple = herbaceous or medicinal plant and I’ve seen the equivalence often in puzzles.

]]> By: Allan_C http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-68998 Allan_C Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:56:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-68998 In 8a herb = simple. I don’t get that, but I’ll take your word for it. But how does literature come in to it?

]]> By: Quixote http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-68997 Quixote Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:56:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-68997 I can think of one or two people who would like to see me get dumped on by birds. Unusually I found this Nimrod quite easy, almost suitable for inclusion as a daily puzzle for normal ‘everyperson’ solvers :)

]]> By: NealH http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-68895 NealH Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:02:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-68895 I thought “passing trade” could just as easily have been “roaring trade”.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-68877 nmsindy Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:33:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-68877 Good point Mick H at 15 above re Quixote, maybe it’s all the Quixote blogs I write on every Sunday’s IoS puzzle that led to that!

]]> By: Al Streatfield http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-68871 Al Streatfield Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:10:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-68871 Sorry, I meant: “Re.8″ not “Re.10″

]]> By: Al Streatfield http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-68870 Al Streatfield Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:08:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-68870 Re. 10:

Why should I say an “example I did like” when I mean an example I didn’t like?

What’s to like about the surface reading?

To refresh your memories, the clue is:

“Nuts give in at the end of British Rail”.

Who, or what, are the nuts, and why should they “give in at the end of British Rail”?

The only remotely clever thing about the clue is the ambiguity of “rail” meaning “inveigh” as well as “railway”. “Nuts” is an OK anagram indicator, but not a particularly inspiring one.

]]> By: Mick h http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-68863 Mick h Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:42:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-68863 Some great clues here – I loved the groan-inducing homonym at 11ac (spelt out by Peter above) and ‘Hands up’.
Re 18, surely the Cervantes novel is enough to make Quixote = Don, without bringing in our esteemeed setter!

]]> By: Peter http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/02/17/independent-6970-by-nimrod/#comment-68857 Peter Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:14:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5667#comment-68857 “God” because of the “Hand of God” goal he scored against England in the 1986 World Cup – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_of_God_goal

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