Comments on: Independent 8,115 / Dac

By: RatkojaRiku

RatkojaRiku — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:52:09 +0000

Many thanks to setter and editor alike for ironing out the buffet(t) issue, and to fellow solvers for confessing that they too found this one a toughie!

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:20:17 +0000

Wot me k’sd, never not me guv, the last blog I did for the other side did contain a real howler, not sure how such an experienced setter as Paul/Puck could have made it.

Long before Eimi took over, there were some truly appaling mistakes back in this place at times (ok the Indy not 15sq).

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:27:32 +0000

We took longer than expected with this one but no complaints – just our brains not functioning at the right level.

Wrote in buffet without even thinking about the spelling or the pronouciation! 5d was a late entry but perfectly reasonable when we found it!

Thanks to Dac – always enjoyable and also to RR for the blog.

Thanks also to Dac and Eimi for admitting the minor mishap!

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:53:44 +0000

I know you are only teasing, flashling, but the difference is that the editor and the compiler had been on the blog offering their mea culpas (or is that mea culpae?) by early afternoon. Now in Another Place …

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:42:14 +0000

Glad it wasn’t just me who made heavy weather of this of this one. Editing errors, what do you think this is, the Guardian

Thanks RR & Dac for a bit of a head scratcher in places.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:45:13 +0000

Excellent puzzle, which I too found much much more difficult than usual for Dac. Favourite clues NO-GO, HUGUENOT, FLUNG. Many thanks RR for the blog.

Going back quite a while, when the railway station in my home town introduced new facilities entitled, in a then newfangled way, the “Bar and Buffet”, they were pronounced by all with that t sounding.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:40:38 +0000

Yes, I see what the problem is now with BUFFET. I just stuck it in without really thinking too much about it.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:26:36 +0000

Another sound offering from Dac, apart from the curious incident of the clue to 23ac. And thanks, RatkojaRiku, for the blog – I needed it to parse DISCIPLE and OVERPAINT. But there were so many superb clues it would be invidious to pick one as CoD.

By: dac

dac — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:35:45 +0000

Nostra culpa, rather, since Mike suggested the revised clue to me and I agreed it.

By: NealH

NealH — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:33:40 +0000

Perhaps Warren Buffett has started following the example of Hyacinth Bucket from the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances.