Comments on: Independent 7257/Mordred

By: IanN14

IanN14 — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:57:41 +0000

Bulls-eye, of course, Colin…

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:46:37 +0000

Sorry jmac, for some reason I completely missed you comment. I’ll get me coat.

By: Colin Blackburn

Colin Blackburn — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:45:35 +0000

Hmm, ARTFUL DODGER, NANCY, BILL, NOAH, BUMBLE are all characters from (bath) OLIVER TWIST (drill), . There may be more?

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:55:36 +0000

Thanks for the blog, John. Very enjoyable puzzle, quite difficult in places, should have seen the possibility of the symmetrically placed ARTFUL DODGER earlier, as I struggled with DODGER. Favourite clues, NANCY and NARRATE.

By: NealH

NealH — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:49:30 +0000

I’m not sure tincture is another word for gold. It’s more that tinctures are heraldic colours and Or is an example of a heraldic colour (hence the perhaps).

By: NealH

NealH — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:42:42 +0000

I don’t see why 5 down is definition by example. As you say, a marcher is an example of a protester, so since protester is the definition and marcher the answer, that would surely be allowed.

I found this fairly easy with the exception of bwana, which I was convinced was going to be something like b_ama.

By: jmac

jmac — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:03:45 +0000

Thank you John for your helpful explanations. I found several of the clues hard to parse but was helped by spotting the theme of Oliver Twist characters in the across solutions early on, which gave me enough crossing letters to help complete the puzzle.