Comments on: Independent on Sunday 1045 by Quixote – 21st February 2010

By: NeilW

NeilW — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:03:46 +0000

Thanks, Handel.

By the way, you missed the C (about) at the end of 4dn.

By: Handel

Handel — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:59:04 +0000

Thanks for the explanations everybody! I guess, for office dwellers like me, ‘lanyard’ seems so humdrum and is something we write almost every day, so ‘laniard’ feels even more alien than it should, like a glamorous alter ego.

By: Quixote

Quixote — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:21:01 +0000

I’m surprised LANIARD caused so much of a problem. NMS got it right of course. ECHIDNA will become familiar over time, usuallly in the singular form as an anagram of CHAINED.

By: eimi

eimi — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:02:34 +0000

Alternative spellings are always problematic and must be precisely clued. Duncan’s parsing doesn’t seem to account for the “One”.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:02:40 +0000

I’d LANYARD pencilled in without full understanding, then, going back to the clue, the LANIARD alternative occurred. We’ll not know till Sun, but “One going over a river” seems to be just a little bit more than Yar.

By: duncan shiell

duncan shiell — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:13:49 +0000

I think the clue is referring to the River Yar which flows into The Solent at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. So I would go with LAN(YAR)D and agree that ‘land’ is defined by light (alight).

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:17:17 +0000

I think it may be the alternative spelling LANIARD with I A R in ‘land’ = light.