Comments on: Independent 8098/Mordred

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:43:20 +0000

Kathryn’s Dad – Please pass on our congratulations to the relevant person! We thought first of all that there must be nina but didn’t look any further for a theme.

We thought this was easier than the usual Mordred but there were a couple at the end which we puzzled over – MUNCH was one of them. We weren’t too happy with TILLERS or STRAND but maybe that’s because they were the last ones in. However we really liked HIGH COURT.

Thanks Mordred and John.

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:55:42 +0000

Triple ply wood/windscreens etc have strands in them, but was a stretch to me.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:34:47 +0000

Re comment #7, I think ply = a strand twisted to make yarn and strand = a lock of hair. Yes, I missed the theme too (while looking for one as I usually suspect there is one with Mordred) but it was not necessary to solve the puzzle which I found was not too difficult by normal Indy standards.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:36:36 +0000

This defeated me. Several clues at the top I just couldn’t get. I did think of “tillers” for 3dn but couldn’t see why. And I still can’t see why 10ac should be “strand”.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:34:44 +0000

Managed most of the acrosses in a few minutes this morning before having to go out; just back after a busy day and finished the puzzle; some answers took a bit of teasing out. Thanks, John, for the blog and pointing out the parsing of 6d which was so obvious I missed it! I had ‘wrest’ as a homophone of ‘rest’ and was on the ppoint of complaining about the lack of a homophone indicator. And I could have kicked myself when the penny dropped about HIGH COURT.

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:53:19 +0000

Arrrgh thank you K’s D and unnamed person, this week Themes 2 Flashling nil… no change there then.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:27:21 +0000

I can claim no credit for this, but a source I can’t reveal has pointed out that we’ve missed something here. ART HOUSE? Then we have BACON, MILLET, MUNCH, WHISTLER, HOPPER and TURNER …

Wouldn’t be a Thursday Indy without something going on.

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:47:10 +0000

John even. Took bacon as K’sD

By: flashling

flashling — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:43:52 +0000

Cheers Jon, for the life of me I could not see Munch, was fixated on bunch, then ounce for cat, well played Mordred.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:41:40 +0000

Thanks, John.

I’m pleased to see Mordred back as a regular in the Indy, because although his puzzles can be tough, I almost always enjoy them. This was a lot easier than some of his previous ones, I found, but no less pleasing for that. I won’t pick a favourite today, because it was all good; but I did struggle with the last three or four, all of which had less than 50% checking letters, many of which weren’t helpful ones. But a good puzzle overall.

BACON is BAC[K] for ‘best part of’, or most of, BACK, and ON, with ‘back’ and ‘rump’ being synonyms.