Comments on: Independent 8054 / Punk

By: flashling

flashling — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 23:27:23 +0000

Thanks B&J and Punk, started the day with a stiff one as it were trying to decipher Bannsider in the i and was probably suffering brain malfunction when I tried this.

Cheers for showing me what my synapses missed completely.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:13:11 +0000

11ac, I toyed with it being an anagram but I’d never heard of “Taswegian” and I couldn’t see it from those letters, so I guessed “Tasmanian”, which meant I couldn’t get 3dn. On the whole, a difficult one this.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 18:05:28 +0000

I’m waiting to discover why this grid is as it is. I’ve had a quick scan about to see what I can see, so far clocking nowt in the extras column. Spooky …

By: allan_c

allan_c — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:23:20 +0000

One that took a bit of getting into, with several ‘of course’ moments when answers became obvious.
TASWEGIAN was new to me; not in Chambers but I found it at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Taswegian (and it can be any inhabitant of Tasmania, not necessarily a seaman).
1d of course was typical Punk but none the worse for that.
Difficult to nominate a CoD, but ELVIS COSTELLO, DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON and GARIBALDI must be in the running.

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:56:41 +0000

As someone suggested the other day, we’re just going to have to put up with less than 50% checking in the Indy crossword. Whether we like it or not, and I don’t.

In 19dn arcs are said to be parts of circles: not strictly accurate, since arcs are sections of any curves (and to be utterly pedantic those curves can include straight lines).

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 07:55:38 +0000

Thanks for blogging. I warmed gradually to this one, and finally ended up with a smile on my face when my last one in was BUSTIER. Lots of clues with less than 50% checking letters, which made it tough in places, but it all came together in the end. Favourites today were DELPHINIA and VICEROY.