Comments on: Independent 7160 (Saturday Prize Puzzle – 26 September) by Nimrod

By: Big Dave

Big Dave — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:28:47 +0000

It’s only a small point, but in 5 down I took “to describe” as the containment indicator; “for” is part of “ready for American”.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:02:13 +0000

nms, I’m glad you said that. I thought exactly the same and couldn’t actually understand the other comments!

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:15:10 +0000

I read 11 across as D’OR’s (golden, literally ‘of gold’ from French) ‘got over’ ie reversed, as the blog indeed says, with no more to it than that.

By: IanN14

IanN14 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:23:16 +0000

Just to defend Nimrod’s use of Bert Lahr, he was quite famous as the cowardly lion in “The Wizard of Oz”.
Also his son wrote “Prick Up Your Ears”.

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:22:20 +0000

11a: “d” for “had”, and “got” can mean “had”. Stretching it a bit but I think you must be right there.

29a: Just to mention that “so” is the note preceding “la” going up the scale. But I had to google for “Lahr” so I guess he was obscure for quite a lot of solvers!

By: jetdoc

jetdoc — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:47:44 +0000

In 4d, DD, a large cup size for a bra, is indicated by “busty”.

In 17a, BILE = humour replaces the N in JUNE, so it is “over the third of the month”.