Comments on: Independent on Sunday 1,109 by Hypnos http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/22/independent-on-sunday-1109-by-hypnos/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 00:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: caretman http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/22/independent-on-sunday-1109-by-hypnos/#comment-159541 caretman Sun, 22 May 2011 21:05:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29878#comment-159541 On 23a, I originally had STUPID, from *(IS PUT) + D for defeat, since I could believe that ‘knocked stupid’ = ‘knocked into a daze’. But of course that didn’t explain the ‘male’ at the start of the clue, but it took me a while to convince myself that I had to be wrong.

]]> By: bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/22/independent-on-sunday-1109-by-hypnos/#comment-159533 bamberger Sun, 22 May 2011 07:35:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29878#comment-159533 Defeated by
6d-didn’t know that domino =cloak
16a Hadn’t come across quid in a chewing context. Quid is also slang in the UK for a pound as in “lend us a quid , mate”
15d Page=attendant didn’t come to mind
22a For reasons unknown consomme=soup just didn’t come to mind
22d Might have got this if I’d had c?e?h but only having ??e?h, I couldn’t see it.

Excellent blog, thanks

]]> By: Uncle Yap http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/22/independent-on-sunday-1109-by-hypnos/#comment-159527 Uncle Yap Sat, 21 May 2011 23:39:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29878#comment-159527 I agree with you that MINUSCULE was what the setter probably meant since MINISCULE is marked in Chambers as “non-standard spelling”

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/05/22/independent-on-sunday-1109-by-hypnos/#comment-159526 nmsindy Sat, 21 May 2011 23:09:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=29878#comment-159526 Good puzzle, not too hard. I think though that 7D is MINUSCULE with the country being the US.

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