Comments on: Independent 7881 by Dac

By: MikeC

MikeC — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:44:45 +0000

Thanks flashling and nmsindy, re 23a. I had the word play. What I’m getting from your postings is that “me” is someone who enjoys “a film about love” – which makes sense.

By: Bamberger

Bamberger — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:59:20 +0000

Got the upper half out, less successful with the lower half.
Missed the hidden word at 19a -my excuse that the print version with clues underneath is
Energy essential to vigorous
team work, whereas the paper version was “vigorous team” -obviously much much harder when on different lines!
Thought a troll was a little malicious creature and hadn’t come across the singing.

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:11:52 +0000

MikeC I’d put 23a as at least semi &lit as just someone who writes/appreciates stories about love.

Re dick or dice I felt the food connotations led to spotted dick and the medical bit too (don’t really want to go there over dinner!)

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:25:06 +0000

Thanks Sidey.
We completed the puzle using.a crossword app on our ipad which restricts the software you can normally use when completing it on line. Give me a dead tree version anyday!

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:20:48 +0000

MikeC, it’s mist = film o = love r = right. I think the ‘me’ is probably the AMORIST, rather than the setter… Tks, Dac and flashling.

By: MikeC

MikeC — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:21:55 +0000

Thanks flashling and Dac. Good fun. Anyone able to explain 23a, AMORIST, a bit more? I put in the answer but couldn’t see what the definition was. Is it a kind of &lit, a play on Dac (reversed), or is the setter boasting/confessing . . . ?

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:50:17 +0000

Thanks flashling. Another lovely puzzle from Dac which went in steadily and enjoyably. Just got a bit stuck on AMORIST and the parsing of ATTACKERS (never heard of the ACKERS bit). Liked MITHER too – it’s a word I don’t think I’d heard till I came to Derbyshire, although I doubt it’s just from round here. I too was in the spotted dic[k] camp – possibly because the surface reading was about a meal.

By: sidey

sidey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:36:02 +0000

Bertandjoyce, see post 166 on the General Discussion page for a nicer way to do the Indy online.

There’s never much to say about a Dac, they are just consistently good.

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:52:10 +0000

Thanks Dac for an enjoyable puzzle and flashling for the blog.

12ac: I read this as DIC[e] in MEAL, but DIC[k] is just as good.

12ac/2dn/18ac: We have “briefly” three times to indicate removal of the last letter. Repeating this device is in itself not ideal, and I also wonder whether it is really appropriate for keeping five letters out of six, as in 18ac.

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:28:36 +0000

An earlier start than usual and over and done with fairly quickly. You must have breathed a sigh of relief flashling after your recent blogs! Can’t believe we are the first ones to comment!
The clues read well with a few new words thrown in for good measure. We had to complete it online which always seems to make reviewing more difficult.
Thanks Dac and flashling.