Comments on: Independent 7800 – Saturday Prize Puzzle – 15 October 2011 / Nestor

By: Graham Pellen

Graham Pellen — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:05:27 +0000

I think in 8D it’s the last letter of thE then L for Line.

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 22:15:00 +0000

Thanks for the blog, Duncan. I completed the grid without understanding all the clues, particularly for SABRE. And I knew of Edom as a place or region (“Say, shall we yield Him, in costly devotion,/Odours of Edom…” from the Epiphany hymn “Brightest and best…”) but didn’t realise it could be applied to the people. Silly of me, really, as one can use the name of any place/region/country to represent its inhabitants (“England expects…” and all that).
And as for being an X short of a pangram, could one say it was 1a a pangram?

By: flashling

flashling — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 16:24:31 +0000

Thanks Duncan, I filled it all in but didn’t really do the work a blog requires. @Bamberger well we’d all love enough time to do as detailed blog, but some of us have to work too, unless you want the blog to appear overnight the following day.

Anyway, any of us trying their hand at the Times championship?

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:18:05 +0000

Gee, Bamberger @1, would you like to join the team…?!!!

Yes, it was a very good puzzle, with original treatments. I found it a little on the easy side compared to previous Nestor and indeed Saturday Indy puzzles. Thanks Nestor and Duncan (in particular for explaining the one wordplay I did not understand – in SLEEVELESS).

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 07:21:54 +0000

Superb blog -could not make it clearer -a model for other bloggers. Thanks.