Comments on: Independent 7700/Radian

By: Graham Pellen

Graham Pellen — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:18:12 +0000

22A is K NICKER {BUSINES}S

NealH@8 – not sure why people need to parade their republican sentiments, entirely irrelevant as he is not presumably meaning that he therefore did not know of the Princess Royal’s existence or status.

By: NealH

NealH — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:50:01 +0000

The internet was down at work, so I didn’t look at this till 8 pm and was mighty relieved that it wasn’t one of the trickier Tuesday offerings. I missed the fact that Kinnock was red-haired – I always thought of him as just bald. 3 down lost me, but then I’m not a royalist. Licentiate was the last one in – I was just about to give up in despair at having to think of an extinct people when Iceni occurred to me.

By: lenny

lenny — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:24:00 +0000

I initially found this quite irritating as I chased the circular references but eventually it settled down into a satisfying solve with some ingenious clueing. I finished with Clip, which gave me more of a Grrr moment than Ah moment. I preferred the linked Menswear and Knickers.

By: flashling

flashling — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:57:16 +0000

A very fine lunchtime solve, thank you Radian and John of course. Looks like all you queries have been answered already and had the same thought about 24d as Thomas99

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:36:16 +0000

Yes, this was an impressive themed puzzle, well done, Radian, to fit so much in. Esp liked BLUE, POST, SUNSCREEN, STARLETS, HANGING. Thanks for the blog, John.

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:05:37 +0000

24d is a double clue, isn’t it?
One exercise in spin = A + PE in PR
and also
Appears maybe topped and tailed = Anagram (“maybe”) of (a)PPEAR(s)

And it’s an &lit, as you say.

By: walruss

walruss — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:53:25 +0000

A very enjoyable puzzle today, and I don’t mind the odd puzzle with lots of links. The Grauniad used to do this quite frequently in the good old days, and I alweays enjoyed those run-outs. As I say a lot of fun, with CLIP my fave too. Raidan even got the Roman numeral evaluation right!!

By: caretman

caretman — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:17:52 +0000

Oh, and for 6d, U is the start of ‘up’, so it can be considered ‘upstart’. A rather sneaky bit of wordplay on that.

By: caretman

caretman — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:15:48 +0000

Thanks for the blog, John, and explaining LICENTIATE. I completely missed ICENI and so failed to parse it and could enter it only since it was the only word that could fit. I can help with 3d. It’s ‘perhaps Anne’ = PRINCESS and ‘not included’ means remove INC. Like you, this took me a while to get started but once I got 24d it started to fall out fairly steadily. My last in was 7a but also my favorite clue of the day. Thanks to Radian for a fun puzzle the day I return from vacation.