http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/02/independent-no-6981/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 16:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/02/independent-no-6981/#comment-71963 Wil Ransome Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:14:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6011#comment-71963 Easy but nice puzzle. The only thing that bothered me was 5ac, where we have to accept that a gambit is an opening comment. OK the dictionaries say it’s an opening (as in chess) and it’s a comment, but do they say that it’s a mixture of the two?

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/02/independent-no-6981/#comment-71913 Al Streatfield Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:57:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6011#comment-71913 Nice puzzle. The only clue I didn’t understand was the one to OMINOUS (which I did, nevertheless, get right…)

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/02/independent-no-6981/#comment-71820 nmsindy Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:41:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6011#comment-71820 Pleasing puzzle, and, as you say, fairly straightforward esp the down clues, and I was helped by getting 11 across straightaway.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/02/independent-no-6981/#comment-71818 NealH Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:33:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6011#comment-71818 Maybe it it had said “a tab” I’d have got it more easily. Tablet sounds a bit too above-board for something like an illegal drug.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/03/02/independent-no-6981/#comment-71811 conradcork Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:15:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=6011#comment-71811 24 down ‘a tablet’ is ‘an e’

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