Comments on: Independent 7804 by Anarche

By: stumped

stumped — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:45:14 +0000

Hi flashling. Re your invitation on the “Phi blog”. I emailed Indy about archived puzzles, no reply. Managed to scroll down averting gaze from solutions!

How do I access archived Indy cryptics?

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:46:10 +0000

flashling@16. I’m sure you’re right about the peal of bells but it doesn’t just mean that, I think. Just had a peep in Collins which has ‘chime’ – to sound (a bell) or (of a bell) to be sounded… , with an associated noun chimer so I think Anarche is quite right.

By: mhl

mhl — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:19:43 +0000

Thanks for the post, flashling, and particularly for explaining MACH 0 and EGGHEAD, both of which I’m frustrated at not seeing. I thought this was pretty tough (particularly the top half) but lots of very enjoyable clues. I like LENT and the catapult :) Thanks, Anarche.

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:37:14 +0000

@NMS I checked up on chime, it means a peal of several bells rather than one bell although english being what it is, the bell chimed will be understood even if it’s nonsense. Big Ben is the bell that rings the hour and chimes with the rest, yes OK I know many people think that the clock tower is called big ben.

Still annoyed I didn’t see TRIO though.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:43:21 +0000

Hi flashling

Nothing other than anarchy ever entered my mind!

sidey @9 – huge thanks for that! I almost mentioned in my comment that, as a child, many decades ago, I lived within a mile of a [very secluded] house called How Hill. I was amazed when I googled it, as a result of your blog, to find that it’s now quite notable!

http://www.how-hill.org.uk/

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:23:12 +0000

Thanks all, so how do we pronounce Anarche, an arch, an arsh, anarchy or other? whichever thanks Arachne/Anarche.

By: sidey

sidey — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:50:59 +0000

Thomas99, d’oh, and I thought I’d checked so carefully. I’m off to the opticians now.

By: Lenny

Lenny — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:11:02 +0000

Anarche, in all her disguises (including the beer bottle) keeps getting more imaginative and trickier. I struggled with some of this ending, like many others with Trio. I could not justify it but when I looked back at the clue a few seconds later the answer was staring me in the face. Dud also held me up for a long time as I worked through a mental list of 4-letter cats knocking the last letter off. I loved bonkers, hymn and many others. I was not sure about Crazy but then I realised that I always write y with two strokes in a crossword to save time and a capital Y is fine as a catapult.

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:35:26 +0000

sidey-
Are we ignoring the blogger’s observation that it’s a pangram these days?

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:47:38 +0000

Thanks flashling and Anarche. Very pleasing puzzle – my favourites were MANIFESTO and ANGST but there was much else to savour. BTW, I think chime is fine – it just means sound like a bell I think so even if it is just one bell (which I did not know) it is fine, I’d say.