Comments on: Independent 7,624/Tees

By: walruss

walruss — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:52:25 +0000

14 @ Tip’n'Run: LOL!! Glad you’re back on the ground!

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:07:54 +0000

I think it would cover the town, as well, not just the NUFC football people, tho they’ve taken the Toon army title, referred to as the cartoon army in some quarters…

By: Scarpia

Scarpia — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:40:37 +0000

Thanks Ali.
Difficult,but very good puzzle.
My only quibble would be TOON clued as just Newcastle.I think Newcastle United would have been fairer to us non-soccerphiles.

By: Tip'n'Run

Tip'n'Run — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:19:35 +0000

First time contributor, and the name will indicate the frequency and length of contributions. I printed this crossword yesterday morning in Orlando to complete on the overnight plane journey last night. I had just started when there was very severe turbulence. The next thing I know was that I had got 3/23/27, 5 and 8/13. What was I to think? Who provides Tees’ inspiration? Does he have some deity in his pocket? Is this prophetic? I did not dare tell my wife about the answers until we had landed this morning. It must be a coincidence, mustn’t it? Or must it??

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:29:20 +0000

Yes, with both Tees and Toon in evidence, the NE red-and-whites could feel hemmed in (and left out). Hope those other red-and-whites can make those two steps back to the top, seem well on the way to the first, tho it’s a long, long journey to a place where results have been hard to get.

By: Tees

Tees — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:35:20 +0000

I’m a red-and-white fan in a way, K’s D, so please don’t fret too much.

Many thanks to all, and to Ali: r = response as an SLI (oh go on then: single letter indicator).

Cheers,
PB/T/N.

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:02:47 +0000

A rather fatalistic theme but enjoyable nonetheless. Couldn’t see where the R came from in 5d but the 18s were well done, found it quite easy in the sense of time taken, but had to check yaws for the illness meaning when I got in and porpoise made me smile when I spotted it. Thanks Tees for the run around and Ali FTB.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:08:18 +0000

Thank you Ali. Late to the blog today because I had to stay over in London last night for business (deep joy). This did mean I had the treat of the Indy delivered to my hotel room so I could have a crack at the paper version this morning for a change.

Really pleased to have finished this – got all but three this morning and finished on the train on the way home, apart from the middle word in THE ?A?A? SISTERS. I stuck in SATAN just to impress the bloke sitting next to me.

I really enjoyed this one, despite the rather black theme. Does Tees know something we don’t? There were some excellent anagrams, and I also particularly liked EIGHTEEN, EDIT and PHI. The mention of the black and white part of the North-East took the edge off it, but only ever so slightly.

Witty and teasing crossword.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:51:49 +0000

This was good in the individual style Tees has with quite a lot of thematic material packed in without major strain on other answers tho SPONTOON was new to me. Quite hard as Tees usually is. Favourite clue CUP OF TEA and the misleading definition of EIGHTEEN was esp good too. Thanks, Tees, for the puzzle and Ali for the blog.

By: NealH

NealH — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:45:06 +0000

I found this easier than some of the Tees puzzles of the past. I was mainly held up on spontoon, where the problem was that I was convinced that the son was going round the whole word rather than just the power bit (I even put in the N at the end and pressed check to “confirm” this). I quite liked the brazenness of 10, with the answer given misleadingly in the clue.