Comments on: Independent 7645/Quixote

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:25:44 +0000

Many thanks for the excellent blog, Pierre. This was a little harder than Quixote’s first puzzle on his return to the weekday Indy a fortnight ago. Favourite clue, UPBRINGING. You’re right, I think, about ELLIPSIS – what caught my eye immediately there was that … was in the clue, but not in the immediately following one (as would usually be the case). This gave me the idea. Thanks, Quixote, for the puzzle.

By: NealH

NealH — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:26:36 +0000

I didn’t get round to looking at this until the evening, but no great problem to finish it quickly. Austentite was also my last – for anyone who hadn’t heard the word, I think that was almost inevitable. 8 down was my favourite and 14 across was also quite clever.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:52:44 +0000

Thanks for dropping in, Quixote, and (to you and others) for your welcome. Not too scary, in fact – it’s when a Monday turns out to be a special date and there’s an Anax or Nimrod themed puzzle that I’ll be hiding behind the couch.

spb @ 3: I too appreciated fuller explanations when I first started coming here. I know not all bloggers have the time to go into lots of detail about the solutions, but I shall try to provide a more complete commentary when I can.

By: Quixote

Quixote — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:54:28 +0000

Welcome Pierre. I’m scheduled for alternate Mondays, and in this avatar I hope I am not too scary.

By: flashling

flashling — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:36:25 +0000

Welcome to the other place Pierre! Nice first blog for the Indy.

By: spb

spb — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:23:43 +0000

Pierre – this style of blogging is very welcome to learners like me. Thank you in particular for explaining ‘Tweed’ which I couldn’t work out. Thank you, also, for introducing me to an analogy I had not encountered before: I shall spend the rest of today looking for flat things to pass comment on.

By: scchua

scchua — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:41:40 +0000

Thanks Pierre for blog, and Quixote for an enjoyable puzzle, carrying on in the tradition of his Sunday puzzles.

Favourites were 13D UPBRINGING, one of those clue-like answers, 21A NEIGHBOURHOOD, and 9D ELLIPSIS.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:53:22 +0000

Thanks, Pierre, for a very entertaining blog!

You’re spot on with 8dn, the definition being … – one of my favourite clues, along with 12ac and 13dn, although I was held up a bit with the latter, having entered REVERSE for 24ac ['on = re'] and thinking that was equally valid, but the cluing was impeccable: it was ‘prosaic’ not ‘prose’!

Many thanks to the Don for an enjoyable puzzle.