Comments on: Independent 7919 / Phi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/ Never knowingly undersolved. Mon, 20 May 2013 02:07:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dormouse http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-185137 Dormouse Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:10:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-185137 You are indeed. :-)

]]> By: Phi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-185122 Phi Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:14:09 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-185122 If anyone is still reading this far down…I’m equally boggled by the response. I’ve just sent CP a note on his blog page expressing my own pleasure in the consequences of the event – it is rather nice to hear of someone rushing out to buy my puzzle!

He also mentioned the name of his informant, who is presumably Dormouse. Dormouse’s real name, and SF, combine to make me think of an attendee of a certain London-based music festival starting up in July. Am I right?

]]> By: Dormouse http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-185093 Dormouse Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:32:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-185093 And here’s his comments:

http://www.christopher-priest.co.uk/journal/1043/thirstier-choppers-anag-11-6/

]]> By: Bertandjoyce http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-185067 Bertandjoyce Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:19:13 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-185067 Let’s hope that if he wasn’t interested before, he starts doing them now and uses 225!

]]> By: Dormouse http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-185003 Dormouse Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:25:48 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-185003 I don’t know if he enjoys crosswords, but I did hear that when he found out about this crossword, he dashed out to his local newsagents and bought the last two remaining copies of the paper.

]]> By: Bertandjoyce http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-184974 Bertandjoyce Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:37:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-184974 Do you know if he enjoys cryptic crosswords?

]]> By: Dormouse http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-184969 Dormouse Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:03:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-184969 And it’s now been pointed out to me that “Scintilla” were surveillance devices used in Priest’s short story The Watched.

]]> By: Dormouse http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-184894 Dormouse Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:33:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-184894 Incidentally, I mentionmed this crossword in an SF discussion group and word got back to the author in question, who is reportedly suitably boggled by the honour.

]]> By: flashling http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-184893 flashling Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:22:22 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-184893 Thanks B&J the theme lost me completely so glad I wasn’t doing the blog and avoided the red face that would have occurred. Pleasant little solve but had to guess I Puritani, which I luckily got right.

]]> By: Allan_C http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/03/02/independent-7919-phi/#comment-184887 Allan_C Fri, 02 Mar 2012 21:28:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=41217#comment-184887 Seeing as two of the book titles have been mentioned there’s not much point in holding out on the author, but suffice it to say that his name appears in the grid as two of the answers.

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