Comments on: Independent on Sunday 1101 by Quixote

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:11:44 +0000

RENCOUNTER was new to me, but easy enough from the wordplay. I thought the ‘as before’ was to indicate an ‘archaic’ word as dicts suggest. Similarly LANG was new but gettable from the wordplay and easy to verify. Chambers Biog Dict v useful to check people, but I guess the Internet would have done the business too.

By: Stella Heath

Stella Heath — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:53:47 +0000

Thanks for the blog UY, and for the information on Andrew Lang – I thought I was looking for a famous Scottish fairy

Re 25ac., the clue has “meeting as before” as the definition, which I would have written as ‘reencounter’. Am I mistaken, or has an ‘e’ somehow been lost, perhaps by analogy with French “rencontre”?

Thanks to the Don. I look forward to next week’s (for me) offering.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:12:37 +0000

Oops! Thanks for pointing this out, nmsindy, and I apologise for jumping the gun. The confusion arises because I do the crossword online a week late. The good news is that I’ll get to do another one next Sunday!

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:55:46 +0000

I think that it is the puzzle today, 27 March, that is the last and this is signalled in the print edition. As one who has tackled all 1100+ of them since 1990, I can endorse Wanderer’s praise for the puzzle and am v happy that it will continue in the weekday paper.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 10:02:16 +0000

Thanks for the blog, Uncle Yap. This was, as you say, entertaining as always.

Quixote pointed out in last Sunday’s blog that this is to be his last outing in the IoS. So just in case he passes by here today: I have only recently discovered the IoS crossword (within the last few months) but since then it has become one of the pleasures of Sunday morning. Many thanks for the enjoyment you have provided and I look forward to more in the weekly paper.

By: Uncle Yap

Uncle Yap — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:34:00 +0000

Thank you for pointing out the unintended error. It has now been fixed.

By: scchua

scchua — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:51:36 +0000

Thanks Uncle Yap and Quixote.

I think part of your 2D comment mistakenly got pasted onto your 1A comment: DEPART + MEN (“fellows”) + T(ime).