Comments on: Independent 7,640 / Scorpion – never a dull moment! http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/04/12/independent-7640-scorpion-never-a-dull-moment/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 16:10:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: davey b http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/04/12/independent-7640-scorpion-never-a-dull-moment/#comment-156610 davey b Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:49:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=28419#comment-156610 Why were the shaded squares brown and blue? Was it just my copy of the Guardian or was it to fit in with the the theme, “colour”?

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/04/12/independent-7640-scorpion-never-a-dull-moment/#comment-156397 flashling Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:58:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=28419#comment-156397 Thanks R for the blog, another white knight to the rescue followed by blue peter giving the game away. I may be late on the blog tomorrow as it’s a busy day but it’s coming. (unlike sunday’s sorry for that!)

]]> By: Colin Blackburn http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/04/12/independent-7640-scorpion-never-a-dull-moment/#comment-156378 Colin Blackburn Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:11:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=28419#comment-156378 Excellent puzzle; excellent blog. My route in to the theme was also WHITE KNIGHT. I spotted SUSAN, SEAN and AGNES but missed the other three names, interesting to have a Nina (possibly unintentional) in addition to an explicit theme.

]]> By: RatkojaRiku http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/04/12/independent-7640-scorpion-never-a-dull-moment/#comment-156363 RatkojaRiku Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:24:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=28419#comment-156363 Thank you for the correction, Lenny – I have amended the blog accordingly.

]]> By: scchua http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/04/12/independent-7640-scorpion-never-a-dull-moment/#comment-156359 scchua Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:46:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=28419#comment-156359 Thanks for the blog, RatkojaRiku and Scorpion for a manageable puzzle.

16 3 WHITE KNIGHT led me to 17, the key to the theme. Quite plain sailing after that. Favourites were 21 REINFORCED, 14 25 BROWN BREAD and 17D OLD NORSE. And “Green Onions” by Booker T and the M.G.s was also a favourite of mine at that time.

]]> By: Lenny http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/04/12/independent-7640-scorpion-never-a-dull-moment/#comment-156358 Lenny Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:40:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=28419#comment-156358 Thanks RatkojaRiku. This was a very satisfying effort from Scorpion. I found it quite Ximinean but with tricky wordplay, notably quite a few subtraction charades such as (abs)inthe. The only bit of knowledge I lacked was the abbreviation for erythropoietin but the answer to 23 had to be expo.
I don’t know if we are starting a week-long forename theme. After yesterday’s Fanny, Stan and Cathy, today we have Susan, Herb, Agnes, Earl, Sean and Peter.
Slight amendment to the blog: it was Booker T and the MGs who made the famous recording of Green Onions.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/04/12/independent-7640-scorpion-never-a-dull-moment/#comment-156357 nmsindy Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:33:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=28419#comment-156357 Thanks for the blog, RatkojaRiku, and Scorpion for the puzzle. Agree this was a nicely accessible themed crossword, with WHITE KNIGHT giving me the idea and BLUE PETER confirming it. Nice too to be reminded of GREEN ONIONS tho I appreciate some may not have heard of it but the wordplay was easy enough. It was used as a jingle in some ad campaign much later if memory serves tho when I did ask people could you name that tune they generally couldn’t.

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