Comments on: Independent 7,913 / Nimrod

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:33:34 +0000

Quite a surprise to find Nimrod when I was expecting Phi. And as was the case yesterday, I completed the grid without fully understanding all the clues, so thanks, RatkojaRiku, for the blog. Without the ‘check’ facility when doing it online I probably wouldn’t have finished it though. Like crypticsue I guessed 11a was a palindrome but was none the wiser when I got it – I wondered if Nauruan was the name of some obscure challenger to Romney, Santorum et al; nor did I understand 8d.

By: RatkojaRiku

RatkojaRiku — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:18:29 +0000

Thanks to Gaufrid and crypticsue for explaining 10 – I could see how “states” might fit in, but I hadn’t understood why the “e” was there at all.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:23:50 +0000

Thanks RatkojaRiku and Nimrod. I enjoyed this too – I found it a little less difficult that Nimrod sometimes is but hard by the overall Indy standard of difficulty. Favourite clues SPRINGY, YALE, WHEREFORE, STRATUM. NAURUAN was my last answer tho I’d the idea of a possible palindrome from the start.

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:48:47 +0000

For some reason(i must have been in that mythical ‘zone’) I didn’t find this a particularly difficult Nimrod at all – some of his take me a lot of on and off cogitation time, but this was completed in two short sessions. My main holdup was with 11a – I could see it was a palindrome but I had to scratch my head a bit to ‘get’ it. I agree with Gaufrid about 10a.

Thanks to blogger and setter

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:38:06 +0000

Thanks RatkojaRiku
My interpretation of 10ac is that the definition is ‘property’ and the cryptic wordplay ‘Are they looking over Atlantic …?’ gives E[astern] STATES.