Comments on: Independent 7,581/Dac http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 00:14:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Richard http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149207 Richard Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:47:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149207 Allan

Thanks – I hadn’t thought of that.

]]> By: Allan_C http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149199 Allan_C Thu, 03 Feb 2011 12:05:09 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149199 Richard

I thought the same as you at first about 17a, but then guessed that it meant you had to remove “one” (=i) as well as “i”, thus removing both i’s.

Thanks, Ali, for the explanation of 4d; I got the answer but couldn’t see how it worked.

]]> By: Richard http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149179 Richard Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:19:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149179 I’m not sure about the clue 17 across. The wordplay appears to me to suggest that only one “i” is to be taken out of “Tunisian” before the remaining letters are re-sorted.

]]> By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149135 Scarpia Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:32:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149135 Thanks Ali.
Can only echo the above comments,perhaps a little easier than some Dac’s,but as impeccably clued as ever.
Favourite for me was TURN ON,one of those where you know you must have the right answer but it takes a bit of thought to twig the wordplay.

]]> By: Kathryn's Dad http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149098 Kathryn's Dad Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:21:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149098 Thanks, Ali.

I did solve this one this morning, but haven’t had a chance to get to the blog before now.

Great puzzle. As I went through it, I was thinking ‘that’s really good’, and after that happened about half a dozen times I just decided that Dac was on his usual excellent form.

I’m going to pick TIE as my favourite today. Short clues are always difficult to clue, I guess, but this was elegantly done as always with this setter, and the surface was impeccable.

]]> By: walruss http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149089 walruss Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:58:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149089 A strong one and an antidote to the not-so-great around other journals. keep up the good work Dac and The Indy!!

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149082 nmsindy Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:56:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149082 Excellent puzzle from Dac, and excellent blog, Ali, thanks to both. Not too difficult, my favourites were TURN ON, SUNTAN, and DIRT CHEAP.

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149077 flashling Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:02:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149077 Did this on the train on way in, a very satisfying way of ignoring my fellow commuters! Thanks to DAC and Ali per usual, last in suntan.

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/02/02/independent-7581dac/#comment-149076 scchua Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:53:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=26039#comment-149076 Thanks Ali for the blog, and Dac for another enjoyable puzzle.

Favourites were 20A BASTILLE DAY, 2D GROOMSMEN and 8D STEP DANCE.

A wee observation: 22A EGO – “I’ll make earth move”, I think the clue might have been neater with “I” instead of “I’ll”.

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