Comments on: Independent 7,865 / Phi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/30/independent-7865-phi/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 13:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: MikeC http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/30/independent-7865-phi/#comment-178046 MikeC Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:55:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38519#comment-178046 Well, B&J, someone is! I’m with you on thanks to RR, Phi and all the 225 crew – especially K’s D for organising the Derby get-togethers. HNY all.

]]> By: Bertandjoyce http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/30/independent-7865-phi/#comment-178045 Bertandjoyce Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:43:53 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38519#comment-178045 We’d also like to add our thanks, not just for today’s gentle offering from Phi but to all of the Indy compilers. We regularly overdose on crosswords from other ‘suorces’ but always leave the best until last! Thanks Eimi for having built up such a good team.

Thanks also to RatkojaRaku and all the 225 bloggers for a great year. Thanks finally to Kathryn’s Dad and Eileen for ‘unlurking’ us. Mind you, I’m not sure if anyone will be reading this at this time of day!

]]> By: Bamberger http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/30/independent-7865-phi/#comment-178035 Bamberger Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:47:42 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38519#comment-178035 I thought this was really hard and I needed the superb explanations above to understand the answers. If this is gentle Phi, I doubt I’d ever start a hard one.
As it was I got 5a,11a,7d, 10a with an anagram solver and guesed tom tom for 6d and that was that.
I thought I’d had a biscuit or two in my time but never heard of cracknel and even on googling it, I had ot to put cracknel biscuit to get an answer.
Only one real gripe – is it supposed to be common knowledge that REM have disbanded? If someone had told me, I’d have given thanks -can’t imagine a producer of more dreary records that them.

]]> By: Allan_C http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/30/independent-7865-phi/#comment-178032 Allan_C Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:00:05 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38519#comment-178032 I’ll endorse flashling’s comment, too!

A few gentle misdirections here and there to add to the enjoyment. At 14a it was nice to find that ‘province’ did not refer to NI, a common 5a of setters. While the USA has states, Canada has provinces.

]]> By: Kathryn's Dad http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/30/independent-7865-phi/#comment-178019 Kathryn's Dad Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:15:53 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38519#comment-178019 A straightforward one indeed to end the year, but nonetheless enjoyable for that. The daily Indy puzzles have been consistently good in 2011, so I’ll add my thanks to eimi and the setters to go with those of flashling.

]]> By: Hi of hihoba http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/30/independent-7865-phi/#comment-178018 Hi of hihoba Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:58:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38519#comment-178018 Relatively straightforward for a Phi puzzle. Thanks for the explanations of 17A and 4D, which I completed but hadn’t understood the wordplay. It turns out that they are very similar – I must have a blind spot for letter transposition!

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/12/30/independent-7865-phi/#comment-178013 flashling Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:37:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38519#comment-178013 A nice gentle way to end our weekday puzzles for 2011. Thanks RR and Phi – and Eimi for the year’s fun.

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