Comments on: Independent 7,605/Dac http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 22 May 2013 10:58:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152614 Scarpia Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:27:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152614 Thanks Ali.
All pretty straightforward except for the two 12′s,which were gettable from the wordplay.
Thanks beermagnet,I now realise what the song was about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSHr4ubuD64
Always thought it strange that a butch cowboy would sing about doggies!

]]> By: ele http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152592 ele Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:44:55 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152592 OK with dogie – thanks to beermagnet @6 for reminding me where I knew it from. Great series. Dharmsala was new and the last to go in. Thought 8d was very neat even though straightforward. Thanks to Ali for the blog.

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152588 flashling Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:39:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152588 The two 12s we tricky I felt, got the right answers but never heard the term before as for 12d wordpla left little choice but glad to see I was right. Certainly not a 5 minute job today for me though filling most of the 30 minute train ride (I do read some of the paper as well..) Thanks Ali for confirming 12a/12d for me.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152587 nmsindy Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:35:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152587 DOGIE as I said in #4 was new to me, it means a motherless calf. In view of #8, it might have been thought I meant when I said that that I could find only DHARMSALA.

No, that was not meant at all. DOGIE is in Collins, so Dac has not nodded…

And, as I said, the wordplay led me to both of them.

]]> By: walruss http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152581 walruss Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:50:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152581 Odd to find these bones of contention in Dac. Perhaps they were ‘dogie’ bones??!! But a rare instance of Homer nodding I would say. Come back, Dac, come back!

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152566 scchua Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:02:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152566 Dharmsala, dharamshala, dharmashala – the Oxford gives all three with the same common noun meaning.

]]> By: beermagnet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152563 beermagnet Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:19:48 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152563 Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. Though the streams are swollen. Keep them dogies rollin’. Rawhide!

]]> By: RayFolwell http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152560 RayFolwell Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:06:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152560 Chamber’s has DHARMSALA

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152559 nmsindy Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:02:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152559 Excellent from Dac as always. DOGIE and DHARMSALA were new to me too but I was able to get them from the wordplay. DHARMSALA is in Chambers. Thanks for the blog, Ali.

]]> By: Tokyocolin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/02/independent-7605dac/#comment-152558 Tokyocolin Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:55:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27081#comment-152558 Thanks Ali. This was all good as you say, except for 12dn. While the city in Himachal Pradesh is sometimes spelled Dharmsala, the uncapitalised word for the roadside ‘religious building’ only appears as dharamshala as far as I can tell.

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