Comments on: Independent 8122/Tees

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:36:04 +0000

I was doing so well and then I got stuck on three at the end – 13ac, 16ac and 7dn. 16ac fell to a word search. 13dn could have been too many things and I don’t think I’d heard “reed” for arrow. 7dn had two possibilities, and it seemed to me it could just as easily have been “word processor”.

By: Tees

Tees — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:11:57 +0000

Many thanks to John for his excellent blog, and to commenters.

This thing about daughter(s) and son(s) is correct AFAIK, in which case it would stop you having a double-letter indication for either via the plural. ‘Daughterses’ though … I’ll ponder.

Apologies to all those Aldi customers among you. I’m sure it’s not grim, and if you think I am a snob who shops at Waitrose, I promise you are overestimating the amounts editors pay.

See you at the soup kitchen,

Luv Tees.

By: NealH

NealH — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:49:53 +0000

“has said”, that is.

By: NealH

NealH — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:49:23 +0000

I thought this was very good – not as difficult as Tuesday, but quite absorbing. As everyone as said, the food processor clue was very well worked out.

By: rowland

rowland — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:18:52 +0000

I don’t know the Indy rules, but from doing The Times I think they have daughter or daughters for D, and son or sons for S.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:58:25 +0000

Oops, a misplaced comma. That second paragraph should read “But, like John, I wondered… “

By: allan_c

allan_c — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:56:18 +0000

Thanks, Tees. Good to see a puzzle with some scientific references as in 2dn. My first guess, having got 11ac but not 1ac, was ‘Fermi’ since Fermi and Dirac both developed the statistics now known by their joint names. Then I remembered Dirac’s first name. Incidentally, both Pauli and Dirac (and Fermi, for that matter) could be described as quantum experts.

But like, John, I wondered about ‘daughters’, plural, in 11ac. It does rather lead one to expect a word with two D’s. I can’t see that the surface reading needs the plural rather than the singular.

And thanks, John, for the blog, particularly the parsing of GREMLIN which I only got from the crossing letters.

By: rowland

rowland — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:10:01 +0000

Thank you John for a very nice blog. I agree with you and Flashling that this is top-drawer stuff, with very many good spots, and at least one really brilliant one at food=processor. I suppose the ability to think like that is what makes someone an Indy compiler. I am a jealous drudge!

Thanks Indy for a lovely solve, and the idea that Aldi really IS grim!

Cheers
Rowly.

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:07:34 +0000

A good puzzle indeed, but definitely not easy.

By: Querulous

Querulous — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:44:18 +0000

Thanks Tees and John.

Re 5D, Chambers indicates john as being especially American slang for toilet, hence the American reference.