Comments on: Independent on Sunday 1,179 by Hypnos

By: yvains

yvains — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:40:40 +0000

Re 8 – goats are the traditional embodiment (in e.g. the Decameron) of lust – cf. ‘goatish’, ‘the old goat’.

I wondered whether HAUTE CUISINE might be a homophone (‘oat’ = ‘grain’/'in fine form’ – but I think Querulous has it right.

Particularly liked PATHFINDER, TURN OF PHRASE, WISHLIST and LEWDNESS. Thanks to Hypnos and Simon.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:43:14 +0000

Definitely difficult in that I could only solve about half of it all week. Didn’t help that I absentmindedly inserted the answer to 23dn at 22ac, but that only hindered the solving of 17dn.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 11:43:13 +0000

Thanks, Simon, and Hypnos.

I too couldn’t make sense of HAUTE CUISINE and at one stage wanted to put in HAUTE COUTURE, which made even less sense. I guess Querulous has it, but it’s not one of Hypnos’s best ever clues, I fancy. But good stuff elsewhere – I liked TURN OF PHRASE in particular.

Your joke at 8dn is worthy of Basil Brush, but would have been blue pencilled before it ever got televised …

By: Querulous

Querulous — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 10:41:45 +0000

Thanks Hypnos and SH.

Re 18, it seems to be a cryptic definition where “keep” is used in the sense of “food”.