Comments on: Independent 7732 by Nimrod

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:23:11 +0000

@joins the G moves back.

Thanks Nimrod/John H for clearing up the Nina cock up, as K’s D said a rare slip here.

Re the easy comments hmm I’ve seen a comment or two at 15sq that it was an easy Nimrod in the past and JohnH has risen to to the challenge next time out with avengence. Hope I don’t get the backlash, this was bad enough to blog in time.

By: Joins

Joins — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:02:39 +0000

I was confused by 26ac because to get ALGORE from GALORE you have to move the G forward, not set it back.

By: Lenny

Lenny — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:56:17 +0000

Thanks Flashling and Nimrod. A rare Nimrod finish for me so I might have expected that everyone would find it easier than usual. I was helped by the nearly nina as I don’t think that I would have got Eolith or Bonsai otherwise.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:43:23 +0000

Thanks, flashling and Nimrod. I too found this not quite as difficult as some Nimrod puzzles, and was helped by seeing the Nina emerge fairly near the end. I solved, re-solved, and re-solved, AL GORE, but it just seemed bulletproof. Commiserations, John H. Now, if it had been the Times, that answer would not be allowed, AG being happily still with us.

By: John H

John H — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:39:32 +0000

As surmised, the original clue – for ANGORA – required a rewrite. Weeks later, the nina forgotten, clue for AL GORE was written.

Curses.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:52:32 +0000

Well I’ll go to the foot of our stairs. I finished a Nimrod. I didn’t find it too difficult, actually, partly because I guessed it might be ENGLAND down the lhs; but then AL GORE kind of threw a spanner in the works for the rhs.

CHEVALIERS and SHIRTY were the pick of the bunch for me today. If this were Another Place, then I’d definitely have said that AL GORE was a substitute clue where it hadn’t been realised that it spoiled the Nina. If it does prove to be that, then it’s very rare for the Indy.

Whatever, good puzzle.

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:29:47 +0000

The usual high quality cluing of course – not quite as hard as he can be, I thought.

I’d be interested in any explanations of “Americe”. My main theory at the moment is that a clue for “Angora” got mixed up with one for “Al Gore”, but perhaps there’s more to it? I vaguely wondered if “Sea end” might be involved but if so I don’t get it.

By: Conrad Cork

Conrad Cork — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:51:56 +0000

America and England,according to GBS are two countries divided by a common language.

Nimrod continues his practice of quiet virtuosity.

10 is Noam around ‘mo’ for flash and ‘gr’ fro Greek.