Comments on: Independent 7,890 by Phi (Saturday Prize Puzzle 28/01/12)

By: redddevil

redddevil — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:51:07 +0000

I’d have thought the philosophers ought to have been better known myself. Most of them, for instance, do not appear in the list of the 50 best known philosophers so how is anyone expected to know them without resorting to looking up every possibility?

By: flashling

flashling — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:13:10 +0000

or commenter HAS not AS

By: flashling

flashling — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:12:28 +0000

Hmm as any blogger not had gremlins?

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:36:14 +0000

Thanks Gaufrid – sorry Jan, we do seem to have had a gremlin creep in to our first blog. May not be the last either! Thankfully no gremlin(s) on board here – saw the northern lights!

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:22:23 +0000

Hi Jan
I will answer on B&J’s behalf because I know they are away at the moment. In 20dn it is I’S in HE ROM so I suspect a typo or similar.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:23:14 +0000

A minor point – does 20a need IS (for ‘one’s')? I only noticed because I thought it was HIS from ‘Man’s’ and M for ‘memory’ and couldn’t see how we got the ERO.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:15:28 +0000

Well done, both of you, it’s good to see you on the ‘other side’ of the table.

This one defeated me. I only recognised three of the names although I managed to solve some of the others from the clues – even the melodic sounding, UNAMUNO! There were still a lot of gaps when I gave up.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:30:29 +0000

Thanks B&J for the excellent blog and Phi for the puzzle. Quite a few of them I’d not heard of but the wordplays were pretty clear. Curiously, tho ULU is not in Chambers or Collins, it’s in the Concise OED. It was a very easy clue anyway, deliberately so, I suspect.

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:25:01 +0000

Didn’t quite get there – failed on IRVING and GODEL. But a good workout all the same. And welcome to our new bloggers.

By: flashling

flashling — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:42:28 +0000

Thanks B&J and welcome to 15sq as bloggers. Failed on this as didn’t know all the names and couldn’t get all the names from the wordplay despite singing the song over and over in what I hope was just my head!