Comments on: Independent 7849 by Quixote

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:39:58 +0000

‘Three sheets to the wind’ is the variant I’m familiar with, though ‘in’ is just as good as ‘to’ (possible case for making an anagram with it).

By: flashling

flashling — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:56:14 +0000

Cheers Neal/Quixote, slightly held my self up on “a sheet in the wind” by putting in “to the wind”. Liked the non self referential 1d and I put in spit without fully justifying.

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:59:35 +0000

Thanks, NealH. Pretty much raced through this, though anti-climactically drew a complete blank on SPIT. If it’s a dd, then sadly I don’t think I’m familiar with either definition.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:23:21 +0000

Thanks, NealH and Quixote. Enjoyable puzzle, which I too found was on the easy side.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:32:03 +0000

Thanks Quixote for a pleasant puzzle and Neal for the blog. We seem to be missing 18dn (NOISOME = Moonies*).

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:50:06 +0000

Many thanks, Neal.

Enjoyable and mostly straightforward puzzle, with only a couple of googlies thrown up (for me, anyway, these were the nicely misleading WINDMILL and the intersecting NOMIC). Like you, I was unfamiliar with the variation of the phrase at 20ac.

Quixote often manages to smuggle a science-based clue (IMIDE today) into his Monday puzzle, which I like. Tiny niggle: a question mark at the end of 4dn might not have gone amiss.

Thanks to Quixote for a good start to the Indy week.