Comments on: Independent 7693 by Quixote

By: ele

ele — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:44:58 +0000

No probs – it’s brilliantly easy. I can recommend it to anyone who likes to solve the Indy crossword on paper but doesn’t get the paper.

By: ele

ele — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:40:05 +0000

have downloaded xword solver. Now will probably spend the rest of the day finding out how it works!

By: ele

ele — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:34:58 +0000

to TRIALNERROR@6 Gaufrid’s solution sounds great and I’m going to try it – I didn’t know that one. I am fortunate enough to have a proper layout program, InDesign, and I screenshot the bits of the x-word separately and load them into a prepared layout – so I can get it all on an A4 page. Slightly laborious and there’s a bit of repetition, but once set up it only takes a minute or two. You can do the same thing in a Word document but it won’t fit on one page.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:56:56 +0000

TRIALNERROR
Download and install Crossword Solver from here:

http://www.crosswordsolver.info/

This program provides the facility to download and print the current day’s Indy.

By: TRIALNERROR

TRIALNERROR — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:51:43 +0000

ele: I’m intrigued.How exactly do you ‘download’ the Independent crossword? I labouriously copy and paste using print-screen and Paint. Is there a quicker way?

By: flashling

flashling — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:38:10 +0000

Thanks NMS for confirming 17 otherwise quite easy for an Indy and of course Q for the puzzle.

By: lenny

lenny — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:53:08 +0000

Thanks nms. This was quite a quick solve with a few minutes required at the end to get three recalcitrant answers. I had almost exhausted my synonyms for sword before I remembered the obscure Brand and Willy Brandt. Pronouncements was tricky, even with all the checkers and I was thrown by the She into seriously considering Pronouncerette until I successfully parsed the clue, which, on refection, is my favourite of the day. I finished with Laevulose which is a new word to me but I know that the Don likes to broaden our vocabularies. It had to be Laevulose but I was still a bit tentative about it because Lose appears unscrambled in the anagram.

By: canalonly

canalonly — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:06:57 +0000

there were problems last week Kathryn’s dad but they seem to have cleared up generally now

By: ele

ele — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:59:20 +0000

Thanks nms for the blog. Enjoyed the puzzle and did it quickly for me in around 45 mins so thanks Quixote. I liked PRONOUNCEMENTS too. To K’sD. I don’t do the Indy xword online as I usually buy the paper, but had no trouble getting to the webpage today to download it for doing on paper.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:36:00 +0000

Thanks, nms.

A well-clued and enjoyable puzzle. My favourite today was PROUNOUNCEMENTS – obvious but not obvious to me until near the end. And LAEVULOSE as well – being a sugar it had to end in -OSE, but it needed all the other crossing letters to get it.

Has anyone else been struggling to access the Indy crossword online in recent days?