Comments on: Independent 7948 / Nimrod

By: Mr A Writinghawk

Mr A Writinghawk — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:48:35 +0000

(Er, I meant ‘EULOGISE’, of course. My bad. But the point stands.)

By: Mr A Writinghawk

Mr A Writinghawk — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:44:06 +0000

Also, speaking as a sometime mathematician, I still had to puzzle out 3d because I have never heard anyone talking about ‘real lines’ in the plural. The real numbers considered as a line are ‘the real line’.

By: Mr A Writinghawk

Mr A Writinghawk — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:40:16 +0000

22ac had the less obscure ‘EULOGIES’ as an equally possible answer (‘es’ also being a letter), but that fouled up the long answer at 7d. For me that tipped the balance of the puzzle from very hard to unreasonably hard.

By: Conrad Cork

Conrad Cork — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:37:44 +0000

11 12 and 14 are all on the same line and rhyme with each other. Coincidence? Probably not.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:22:54 +0000

Long live Nimrod (and Bannsider)!

By: Bannsider

Bannsider — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:34:31 +0000

“@Bannsider considering some of your stuff that’s quite a comment. I wonder how many folks will see Nimrod (or Bannsider!) and not even attempt it.”

Quite a lot I should think, which is why if it was up to me the puzzles would be anonymous!

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:23:02 +0000

@Bannsider considering some of your stuff that’s quite a comment. I wonder how many folks will see Nimrod (or Bannsider!) and not even attempt it.

By: Bannsider

Bannsider — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:53:16 +0000

I realise I am on dubious ground here, but I’d like to declare the clue to BAPU the most sadistic I’ve seen in a while

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:57:51 +0000

Thanks, B&J for the blog and Nimrod for the puzzle. I would like to comment further, but I really didn’t get far at all with this one today – pretty much out of my league. However, I have solved a couple of Nimrods in the past, so I shall enter the fray again next time he’s up in the Indy.

By: duncanshiell

duncanshiell — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:36:59 +0000

Definitely the hardest puzzle of the week so far. Like Allan_C I managed to complete the puzzle without resorting to aids, but it took a long time and also involved walking away for a time to do other things before coming back and having a flash of inspiration which then gave some extra crossing letters that helped solve one or two more before walking away again and repeating the process. Last in were BAPU and BAFFLEGAB.

The clues were fair and the less well known words were deducible from the wordplay one enough crossing letters were available.

Thanks to B&J and Nimrod