Comments on: Independent 8114 / Jambazi

By: Paul B

Paul B — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:55:34 +0000

Perhaps it could be said to be synonymous, anyway: ‘Mrs Hitler, nee Braun’ = ‘Mrs Hitler, maiden name Braun’? A reinterpretation, but it works for me.

By: Jambazi

Jambazi — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:40:09 +0000

Sorry folks, I posted #5 under my other name by mistake; the site remembers my email address and name as some sort of cookie so I never fill it in. I do take the point about CAROUSEL.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:31:46 +0000

Maybe knowledge is a dangerous thing, Wil at #14, but I think pretty much every English dict gives nee = maiden name and that is what is I thought of when solving.

I hope Tramp and Jambazi don’t fall out over the interpretations of 4D…

By: flashling

flashling — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:50:01 +0000

Thanks Jambazi and Duncan for the blog which I needed for a few today, I started a new job today and think my mind was elsewhere on the train trying to solve this after a very poor start. Some cracking stuff from the setter, a clearly very talented fellow. Hehe lust remembering meeting Rod Hull and Emu on a tram in blackpool as a kid.

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 21:38:12 +0000

On the whole very much enjoyed, although like Tramp@5 I am uncomfortable with 4dn, where the definition is surely ‘that flies’, ‘that’ a demonstrative pronoun, so that the rest of it simply doesn’t work: there is no indication that ‘car’ is subtracted from ‘carousel’. And I also have a bit of a quibble with ‘nee’ for ‘maiden name’ in 9ac since the translation of the French word is ‘born’, and ‘maiden name’ is what a woman is born with, not the same thing.

Rod Hull and Emu in 12ac reminded me of that excruciating Parkinson interview when the ostrich attacked Michael P, who played along with it and was merry although he must have wanted to thump the outrageous Rod Hull.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:50:23 +0000

Found this too much of a slog to be enjoyable, I’m afraid. Completed it only with word searches for several clues at the end, and that was a case of I’ve got this far, I might as well keep going.

By: sue

sue — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:43:18 +0000

I`m in awe of the painstaking work and time that you`ve given to this, Jambazi.
Hope you feel, as I do, that it was entirely `worthwhile` – I think it`s wonderful enough to frame-and-hang.

@ Duncan, I appreciate your efforts too. I`ve learnt so much about this `ere trickery-crypt-ickery` today.

Thanks to you both
sue

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:40:10 +0000

An enjoyable puzzle from Jambazi. Our COD was almost the last one in – PRESCOTT.

As K’s D said, the top half seemed to go in quite quickly and then we also ground to a halt. All of the clues however were fair and we were quite happy with 4d.

We’re also not a great watcher of chat shows so weren’t aware of some of the subtlties in the puzzle but that didn’t seem to matter.

Thanks to Jambazi and Duncan.

By: NealH

NealH — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:50:33 +0000

Most of this went in fairly easily, but I got bogged down for ages on saltires, tumbrel and Prescott. I suppose I ought to have heard of saltires, but things North of the Border have never been of great interest to me. I’d only heard dimly of tumbrels and didn’t know what they were. The definition I looked at said they were used for transporting victims of the guillotine, so that left me confused on the definition (although I suppose that would be quite messy as well). I failed to parse Prescott – got Esc and OTT but somehow failed to equate spin with PR.

By: Jim T

Jim T — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:24:22 +0000

Really good puzzle with many excellent clues. Thought ON SPEAKING TERMS was brilliant.