Comments on: Independent 7711/Anax http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 04:46:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-164178 nmsindy Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:05:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-164178 This was the toughest puzzle of the year so far of those I managed to solve – it was all totally fair. Thanks, Anax.

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163417 flashling Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:34:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163417 Ahh outing yourself as a tv lesbian Eimi :-) was harsh doing this on us for a monday – I thought you liked us a bit. If the thursday makes this look simple I’m bleeding glad it’s not my turn. Pierre I salute you. My edit count would be a lot higher I suspect and posted much later. Bravo mon frere

]]> By: eimi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163413 eimi Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:50:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163413 Look, just because I live in Brighton, one of the few places in the country in which you can buy size 12 stilettos, doesn’t mean I’m a transvestite. In any case I’m in Italy now with my girlfriend, so can’t enter into much debate at present. But, as for Thursday: many a true word spoken in jest.

]]> By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163410 Scarpia Mon, 04 Jul 2011 22:24:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163410 Thanks Pierre and Anax.
Tough stuff for a Monday,but very satisfying.
16 down immediately brought to mind the old(ancient?)joke –

Greek customer “Eumenides”
Greek tailor ” Why? Euripedes”

]]> By: caretman http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163401 caretman Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:15:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163401 Hey! I didn’t mean to let the cat out of the bag, Eimi. You should have told me it was a secret!

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163398 flashling Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:56:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163398 Sil I agree glad I wasn’t blogging this there’d be even more edits Pierre. Despite DEan’s rating i’d say this was in the top 5 this year including saturdays.

Now Eimi has been exposed as a transvestite, I hate to think what will appear on Thursday after today’s easy one.

]]> By: Sil van den Hoek http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163395 Sil van den Hoek Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:30:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163395 Another Monday, another Anax …. :)
Well done, Pierre.
If I were to blog this puzzle today, it would have been like this:
get up at 9am [lucky me, today] – try to organise my braincells with a cup of coffee and, oops, an Anax – give it a go for half an hour, not much 13ac – contact my PinC, spend another hour or more to get as far as we can get – finish the puzzle (perhaps with a little bit of cheating) – write a blog. It must be after 1pm by now.
The first post here was at 10:19am.
Brilliant, Pierre!!

We decided to have an extra long afternoon session in a Cambridge café, tackling first Rufus [1hr, including a lot of talking] then Anax [2hrs, hardly any talking].

We guessed three answers: PROGRESS (13ac), DIGEST (8d) and that long one at 9d. We had it all right without understanding why.
After reading the blog I must say that each one of them were Highlights.

Unfortunately, we went wrong [well, it was me] in the Old Country of 18ac. I suggested that it had to be SHIRAZ AND OMAN.
Well, there you go with ‘Euminides’ and ‘I Know Him So Well’.
The latter was a brilliant clue. We were thinking of a four-letter chess piece inside (WOOLLEN SKI)* and ‘quirky idea’ as the definition – no!

Typical Monday fare, wasn’t it? :)
I know exactly what I find hard about Anax’s puzzles. In short, it is because he knows a lot more about the English language than I do, and because this is really a disadvantage when solving his crosswords.

The MEGANEWTON (27ac) is nice. I do not like brand names as a solution, but when they are part of the construction I am usually fine with it. BTW, I don’t think the solution should be defined as a ‘power’ [although I do understand what Anax means (in the end it can be justified)], becuase power and force are not the same in Physics.

Clue-’coupling’ of the Day: 13 & 15ac.
[it distracted/distraught me so much that, after having ??G?S? in 8d, I suggested , um, 'orgasm' .... Don't think my PinC heard me saying it :) ]

19d (THE MOB) was great too – it’s not just ‘us and them’, but also ‘US and them’. Very subtle.

All in all, hard work.
But satisfying.

]]> By: Pierre http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163373 Pierre Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:55:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163373 Thanks Radian. To avoid that heavy knocking on my door in the early hours, I’ll amend my mistake. As per usual, my blog is turning out to be more edit than blog.

]]> By: Mick H http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163370 Mick H Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:37:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163370 Well, I’d definitely put this on the hard side of medium-hard – my allotted commuting window wasn’t enough, so I needed a lunch-break to finish it. Some great stuff here, though – “hammer and tongs”, “enemies of US”=them, “old Irish Bill”=RUC… and I was pleased to see you=U without a homophone indicator. OK, there was a query, but for me this is part of the language now. U agree?

]]> By: Radian http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/07/04/independent-7711anax/#comment-163369 Radian Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:33:30 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=31226#comment-163369 Pierre – just in case they’re checking up on me checking up on you, may I pedantically point out that Chris Patten’s “new” RUC are the PSNI.

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