Comments on: Independent 8084/Eimi

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:37:01 +0000

Re allan_c@10, AM is in the latest Chambers, too: 12th ed., 2011. I thought it was a well known abbreviation. All the radios I owned up to about 1972 used AM.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:58:10 +0000

The theme completely passed me by, but didn’t prevent me solving the puzzle – which is how it should be. I did think there must be a theme or nina because of the grid pattern but couldn’t see it.

Re 2d, Chambers 1998 edition has amplitude modulation as one meaning of AM.

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:46:40 +0000

Well done Eimi – what a way to celebrate the number one losers (to quote Jerry Seinfeld)!

We missed the theme completely but we knew there must be something going on as soon as we saw the unusual grid. Well done Richard for spotting them all.

Thanks John for the blog as there were a couple that we couldn’t quite parse.

The Indy does it again!!

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:23:10 +0000

What a difference a day makes. After struggling on yesterday’s puzzle, I looked at this first think this morning and found I’d filled in about three-quarters of it without thinking. I stopped then only because I didn’t have time to look at any further clues. When I got back to it, only 13ac gave me any problem. Even when a word search revealed only one possible answer, it still took me quite a while to work out why. Then again, I never did work out the parsing of 19dn so thanks for the explanation. As others have said, there isn’t much that is called multistorey. No, I never spotted the theme.

By: rowland

rowland — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:56:19 +0000

A good thing to celebrate the silver winners, and done in a really nice way. The grid caused maybe a few too many shorter words but with such an entertaining theme I didn’t mind a bit. CoD the Curtis Strange reference, really good.

Well done Eimi and John,

Cheers
Rowly.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:12:55 +0000

Thanks, John.

With the slightly unusual grid, I too was looking for some theme, but I didn’t spot one. Good puzzle, though, which I enjoyed and solved without too much of a struggle. Being of a certain age, I particularly liked WILSON. Although of course nothing untoward happened between the two. Allegedly. Because phone hacking hadn’t been invented then.

I would never have spotted all the silver medallists, so thanks to Richard for flagging that up. And of course now EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING makes a bit more sense too.

By: MaleficOpus

MaleficOpus — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:02:24 +0000

Gah, beaten to it, but while I’m here, I’d say that it is Samantha Murray, since Andy won gold as well, which may or may not have inspired him to win the US Open, for which I offer my congratulations.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:00:51 +0000

I went down the golf route… But thanks Richard – I would never have got there.

By: MaleficOpus

MaleficOpus — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:53:01 +0000

Thanks Eimi and John.

All the across entries apart from the phrase are all silver medallists at the Olympics, hence the slightly odd grid.

HUNTER took nearly as long as the rest put together, not knowing much about watches or horses, and the parsing of CAR PARK was surprising, but I suppose there aren’t many things called multistoreys.

By: Rorschach

Rorschach — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:47:19 +0000

Thanks John and Eimi,

A rare morning solve for me – late night last night for a lot of us so took the morning off. Just what we’ve come to expect from Eimi – lots of clues, the tightest of cluing and good fun. Curtis Strange is a particularly nice touch.

If 12 down is G = Gasherbrum 1 then I might try and sneak Kanye West past him as = K (Kanye’s West) – I parsed it as per your latter parsing but think you may be right. I was also confused as to the existence of the I – it may be that he would argue the “Gasherbrum I” is “the first of the Gasherbrums” which is fair enough.