Comments on: Independent 7708 by Quaiteaux

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:21:39 +0000

Blast.

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 07:37:08 +0000

Paul B @ 22, I thought the same as you about BY, but Chambers gives both BY and BYE.

By: flashling

flashling — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:51:50 +0000

Lol good spot tees ugh late bed

By: Paul B

Paul B — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 01:21:05 +0000

That’s BYE, innit Joe.

By: Joe Taylor

Joe Taylor — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:27:43 +0000

After having had some time to think about it, my reading of 1ac is:

(way to get round) = BY (to be given a ‘by into the next round’)
(minor predicament) = PASS (a ‘pretty pass’)
Whole clue = literal definition of BYPASS

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 08:06:07 +0000

A fairly quick finish for me. Spotted DOUBLE DUTCH at once but POISSON DISTRIBUTION and some other acrosses eluded me for a while after I tentatively put in “scale down” for 10d – tentatively because EGBDF isn’t a scale – until UNIVERSE and BASS CLEF put me on the right track.

Is there a nina (apart from the clue to 15d)? Looking at the right and left hand sides of the across rows of unches there are a lot of three-letter combinations which are either words or (according to Chambers) recognised abbreviations: ROT = Recognised Occupational Therapist, etc. Only PUA doesn’t seem to mean anything.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:45:46 +0000

Not the Millwall of Dee? You’re sure?

We are Millwall
We are Millwall
Oo-oo-oh
No-one likes us.
We are Millwall
We are Millwall
Oo-oo-oh
We don’t care.

By: Conrad Cork

Conrad Cork — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:36:29 +0000

This post may be a bit late for anyone interested to see, but it occurred to me yesterday that more people (especially of Cumbrian’s generation perhaps) may know the word ‘burden’ than they think.

The song The Miller of Dee begins thus:

There was a jolly miller once
Lived on the River Dee
He danced and he sang from morn till night
No lark so blithe as he.
And this the burden of his song
For ever used to be
I care for nobody, no, not I,
If nobody cares for me.

By: hounddog

hounddog — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:53:56 +0000

NealH: in the musical scale the octaves run A-G then start again at A, hence A being between G and the next B.

Got everything but had to check acciaccatura which was completely new to me. Poisson Distribution was a definite laugh/groan moment.

By: NealH

NealH — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:42:27 +0000

I can’t say this was my favourite puzzle of the week – too many clues where, instead of slapping the top of my head and saying “of course” when I got the answer, I was just left somewhat bewildered. I flew through about two thirds of the puzzle and then got completely stuck on the top left corner. Not being very religious didn’t help – I spotted the pain=bread but didn’t know anything about fish being involved in the miracle, so was a bit lost on the first word. 10 down completely lost me and I still find it a bit unsatisfactory – “a” doesn’t come between “g” and “b”, does it? It goes without saying that I’d never heard of acciaccatura, although I did eventually work it out from the wordplay.