Comments on: Independent 7617 / Dac

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:20:59 +0000

Hi Flash. The machine thinks I’m naughty, but I don’t know why! Gaufrid sorted it out and put my 5 – the first version of the comment – on afterwards. Perhaps it’s the start of a black ops thing – you know how paranoid we are these days. Better check the cash card …

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:56:11 +0000

@PaulB have you got yourself onto a naughty list? Given the order your posts arrived? Tees myself up for something I guess.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:52:42 +0000

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By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:42:11 +0000

8 I like your development using ‘at rovers’ (and that could be a fantastic anag ind for fodder that happened to form another team name, e.g. West Ham United at Rovers for boring old THE NEW STADIUM), but there’s always the possibility that Dac here regards d, o, n, c, a, s, t, e and r all as ‘rovers’, i.e. wanderers. And now we’re back to footie again. And now it’s on the telly – so byeee!

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:33:46 +0000

Right up to Dac’s usual standard. I thought the &lits at 1ac and 15ac were brilliant. Like you, Gaufrid, I was uneasy with ‘Rovers’.

At 10ac I had Heanon (he + anon), of whom I’d never heard, but he does appear to exist now I look. However it’s obviously Lennon.

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:46:48 +0000

Quiet in here today. Like Gaufrid I found this on the easy side but not sure why that is, perhaps it’s the fewer than usual cryptic or double definition clues and no obscure answers. Rather harder tomorrow, I expect, as is the Thursday way round here. Thanks Gaufrid for the blog and Dac of course for the puzzle.

By: scchua

scchua — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:23:59 +0000

Thanks Gaufrid for the blog and Dac for an enjoyable puzzle, not difficult, but fair.

Favourites were 1A SHADOW CABINET, v.g. &lit, 25A SMELLING SALTS nicely cryptic defn, and 14D MARTINMAS. Glad you remembered the 60′s DION. I guess the indicator in 8A could mean that the letters in “Doncaster” are “rovers”.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:45:12 +0000

Thank you, Gaufrid, for the blog, and thanks to Dac for a fine puzzle. Just when I thought I would get stuck, another one went in, so I was able eventually to appreciate the crossword as a whole.

I thought SHADOW CABINET was an excellent &lit and SMELLING SALTS made me smile. I think ‘rovers’ is fine as an anagrind (setters in Another Place get away with much worse) and was justified by the excellent surface.

With the much-missed Virgilius’ alter ego giving us a super puzzle today in Another Place, this has been a very good Wednesday.