Comments on: Independent 7,869/Dac http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 22:49:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: togo http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178674 togo Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:50:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178674 Many thanks Gaufrid. I should have known it on both counts…….

]]> By: Lenny http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178421 Lenny Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:29:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178421 I loved this, particularly the elegant surface of Hippopotamus. A relaxing bedtime solve.

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178411 flashling Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:37:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178411 Thanks Ali and Dac, didn’t know the rock for gendarme but it couldn’t really be anything else and a quick internet search confirmed it when I got in the office. Sorry to hear you’re leaving our little crew Ali but I completely understand – i’m in a similar position and a tricky one could cause me problems.

]]> By: Ali http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178401 Ali Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:08:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178401 Thanks for the pointers on the HIPPO clue. I could see PO and US, but couldn’t piece the rest of it together.

R for take is an advanced puzzle staple, but you don’t often see it in the dailies, least of all with Dac. A fine clue though.

]]> By: Gaufrid http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178388 Gaufrid Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:25:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178388 Hi togo
r is the abbreviation for recipe, a Latin word meaning ‘take’. It was (is?) used on medical prescriptions etc.

]]> By: togo http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178384 togo Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:18:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178384 I’m probably being stupid, but why does r = take? Is it remove? In what known abbreviation?

]]> By: Kathryn's Dad http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178376 Kathryn's Dad Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:51:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178376 Thanks, both. That makes BRUGES a really clever clue. And the GENDARME definition is in my old Collins, but not in my newer SOED, which is where I normally look stuff up.

]]> By: MikeC http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178374 MikeC Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:46:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178374 Thanks Dac, Ali and other commenters. A good puzzle but I needed help with parsing some of the clues. NealH@5: my Chambers confirms this meaning of GENDARME – very much a new one on me!

]]> By: NealH http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178370 NealH Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:25:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178370 I haven’t got access to any paper dictionaries, but dictionary.com has “a sharp pinnacle of rock on a mountain ridge, esp in the Alps” for gendarme.

]]> By: jmac http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/04/independent-7869dac/#comment-178369 jmac Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:07:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=38813#comment-178369 Hi K’s D, Re Bruges, “r” = “take” so “take away2 means take an “r” our of burgers.

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