Comments on: Independent 8137 by Quixote

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:04:24 +0000

Indeed, I’ve been on a convention committee with Martin.

By: BertandJoyce

BertandJoyce — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:44:18 +0000

Dormouse – nothing so exciting we are afraid!

By: Flashling

Flashling — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:55:27 +0000

@Dormouse, I assume you know my fellow Pyromaniac Martin Hoare and Novacon stalwart then?

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:43:25 +0000

B&J@5 It wasn’t the 10:28 was it? And I presume you weren’t at Novacon 42 (an SF convention)?

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:30:49 +0000

What everybody else said, really. CASTOR is French for ‘beaver’, so that sealed it for me when I understood the wordplay.

By: BertandJoyce

BertandJoyce — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:03:16 +0000

We had the same thoughts as Wil @3 about ET. We tend to think of ‘old’ films as black and white and usually pre 1950s! Must be our age as well.

Dormouse – we were also on the train from Nottingham this morning but only started the crossword this evening.

Last one in was STROPHE – never heard of it and we needed electronic assistance unfortunately.

Thanks to the Don and also to NealH for the blog.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:23:50 +0000

Exactly right for me. Did most of it on a train from Nottingham this morning. Finally had time to pick up the paper again a few minutes ago and the final three fell out immediately.

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:49:28 +0000

Perfect it seemed, everything just right. But it all seemed very easy (so I can imagine some people being unhappy with it), although I had to go to a dictionary for castor, which isn’t in the list of hats in the Chambers Crossword Dictionary.

It struck me at the time that ET is hardly an old film, but perhaps that’s just a sign of age.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:41:15 +0000

Thanks, Quixote and Neal. Nothing too taxing for a Monday morning.

I think 11ac is a simple charade. It doesn’t make sense (to me at any rate) as a DD. It might if it was ‘where’ instead of ‘when’, but then it wouldn’t work as a charade.

I’m with flashling on 15dn. A trousseau is the clothes, linen, etc collected by a bride before her marriage (definition from Collins) and traditionally kept in a bottom drawer somewhere.

By: flashling

flashling — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 09:33:27 +0000

Thanks Neal, I took 15d as (T)ROUSSEAU (not the top.