Comments on: Independent 8013 / Dac

By: pennes

pennes — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:56:53 +0000

I thought 26 ac, Darlington goes down as my clue of the year so far. I might have finished this had I not been on holiday without references: I thought the “woman cross” was something to do with the Eleanor crosses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_cross. I presumed that she must be spelt Elianore which then made the nort hwest cprner unfinishable

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:07:40 +0000

A similar experience to Dormouse – RHS fairly straightforward then slow in the SW corner, partly because (having found J, K, V and X) I thought it might be a pangram.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:43:29 +0000

Got the right hand side without too much trouble, struggled a bit with the bottom left, and needed a lot of help to finish. Seeing how I spent a lot of my childhood not too far from Darlington, I’m surprised that took me a while.

Having worked out that 9ac was an anagram, I had to do an anagram search to get that, but even then it was still hard work.

I’m for option 2 on 24ac.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:04:23 +0000

A fine crossword from Dac, which I too found harder than usual for Dac esp (as someone mentioned) the NW corner. Round the Clock was unknown to me, so thanks for explaining that – my first thought was DASHBOARD when I’d some crossing letters. Funnily I’d a third interpretation of ANADIN taking ana = lots of gossip and din = noise. Favourite clue, DARLINGTON. Thanks Duncan and Dac.

By: duncanshiell

duncanshiell — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:59:35 +0000

flashling @ 2

Thanks – you’re right – corrected now.

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:52:44 +0000

I don’t think you intended to put POLICEMAN in your preamble, but the usual good stuff, I got Anadin via version2 as well.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:51:46 +0000

Thanks, Duncan. Taking Chambers with you on tour is beyond the call of duty …

I swear on my life that Dac has been getting harder recently. It’s all fair, but I think he must have saved up all the tricky clues for the NW quadrant today. I thought DARLINGTON and PERPIGNAN were excellent, and PRIVY was also good once I’d worked it out. Not so keen on BLOBBY.

I went with your option 2 for ANADIN. More product placement in the Indy …

Another good Wednesday puzzle from Dac, thank you.