Comments on: Independent 8074/Klingsor

By: Klingsor

Klingsor — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:42:16 +0000

Many thanks John for the blog and to the posters for their kind comments. I usually go out of my way to avoid words ending in NESS as they can be a swine to clue, and I honestly hadn’t noticed that three of them had crept in here. Hounddog at 3 is spot on with my reasoning for the “say” in 14D. As I saw it, any sauce will display sauciness and salsa’s just one example, which is why I qualified it. I prefer to err on the side of caution in the case of definition by example.

The FT blog is now up and as I’ve said there, people must be wondering what they’ve done wrong to get me twice on the same day!

Thanks to all

Klingsor

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:10:18 +0000

Err quite John not exactly what I meant, odd we lost 2 bloggers today and here was I wondering if I’d agreed to sub for someone and missed it.

By: John

John — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:57:16 +0000

Thanks crypticsue, you’re obviously right that in 6d the ‘going’ refers to the omission of l. Not quite sure how I’ve been eerily quiet, flashling: am I normally rather noisy? hounddog: my point is that it’s simply true, without qualification, that a characteristic of salsa is sauciness.

By: Thomas99

Thomas99 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:49:37 +0000

Well, it doesn’t look like anyone’s going to blog Alberich in today’s FT, so I’ll just say I enjoyed solving him in both guises today. This one was the more challenging of the two, I thought, but the other one had some very nice references in it – it was a good double treat.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:08:42 +0000

Enjoyed this one, which was a good challenge this morning. Liked UNHOLY ALLIANCE especially, and AGAPE came to me in a flashback from my RE teacher at school explaining the difference between that and EROS. Possibly the most exciting bit of RE that I ever encountered.

Thanks to Klingsor and John.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 15:41:59 +0000

Must own up to using a word finder once or twice – and then thinking “how obvious!”

And I too was expecting some musical stuff from Klingsor, but he very cleverly fooled us with “mandolin”. I was going to object that the kitchen utensil is “mandoline” but Chambers gives both spellings for both the instrument and the utensil.

Thanks, John, for the blog – I needed it to understand some of the clues. And thanks, Klingsor, for the mental workout.

By: hounddog

hounddog — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:32:35 +0000

Surely ‘say’ in 14D is because salsa is just one example of sauce.

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:29:46 +0000

I struggled to parse 6d too but no tippex required today (good job as I don’t own any!)

Very nice Klingsor even if I misled myself thinking where is the musical stuff…

Ta John for an eerily quiet blog.

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:54:13 +0000

I found this quite a tricky challenge and Tippex was used in more than one clue.

I think that 6d is R (rule) and an anagram (bust) of OUT SOCIA[L] the start of Life “going”

Thanks to John for the explanations and Klingsor making me work really hard for an enjoyable result.