Comments on: Independent 8055/Dac

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:11:08 +0000

A bad habit that I’m slipping into, missing these final clues. My apologies.

24dn is {toas}t OK ay, 25dn is glad{e}, where glad indeed = gladiolus.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:28:38 +0000

Thank you, Dormouse, for explaining GLAD.
Already thought that ‘glad’ had to be short for ‘gladiolus’ but was too lazy to ask Mrs Chambers.

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:26:04 +0000

@Sil Chambers 11th again…

glad 2 /glad/ or gladdie /glad?i/ (informal)
noun short for gladiolus

And GLAD(e)

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:20:54 +0000

I, too, got caught on 26ac – never heard of it, doesn’t seem to be in Chambers, and I couldn’t work it out from the word play.

Also, quite a few answers I couldn’t parse even when I got the answer. 7dn, I had to look up David Essex in Wikipedia to see if he’d recorded anything ending “-light”, as from the letters I had it could have been “limelight”.

Buy 25dn I was able to pass: it’s GLAD(E), where “glad” is short for gladiolus.

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:04:26 +0000

“Does Dac ever depart from his high standards?”
Well, dear John, probably not (although I did not like 6d (JOCUND) very much because of all these abbreviations).

I came here tonight for the answer (and the explanation) to 26ac (AKITA) [never heard of this brutal creature, never hope to meet 'm either] and the other one I didn’t get: 25d.

Unfortunately, the latter is missing from the blog.
The Indy website tells me that it should be GLAD, but I fear I cannot parse it – blame it on the Chardonnay ….

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:22:02 +0000

Hi Flash. Mine (1993) gets as far as LAMP 2, then fades dramatically into LAMPAS.

By: Malc95

Malc95 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:39:22 +0000

2d – Venus is sometimes called the Morning Star or Evening Star.

Not sure about 1d or 7d though.

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:36:03 +0000

@Paul B my Chambers has:

lamp 3 /lamp/ (slang)
transitive verb
To punch or thump

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:15:28 +0000

n.b. insert ‘mean’ above as appropriate.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:13:46 +0000

Whilst LAM can ‘hit’, LAMP in Chambers and Collins does not, I note. Having said that, I’d always thought I could lamp someone in the eye (or lamp) if necessary, so … where’s it from? Some new stuff relating to Skype and other Net thingies, but not convinced by those.