Comments on: Independent 8177 (Sat 29-December 2012) Tees

By: Phil Richardson

Phil Richardson — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:13:23 +0000

I’ve just recently got back into cryptics after years of absence; the luxury of having some free time over Christmas.

I really enjoyed this puzzle and thanks to some googling have found this wonderful site which explained 12ac

Thanks Tees for a puzzle which made me laugh as well as curse. Excellent.

By: George Heard

George Heard — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:41:31 +0000

A bit late coming here to comment, but I have to tip my hat to Tees and I’m surprised it hasn’t been commented on here, 17 down is one of the most staggeringly wonderful clues I’ve ever read and it made me spill coffee all over the crossword. Excellent stuff!

By: Tees

Tees — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:17:30 +0000

Thanks beermagnet for a really splendid blog, and to all commenters.

I think you’ve nabbed all the references now, so I won’t bore you with a list. However, I will bore you with this, a link to the download page for the new The Far Meadow album, which is called Where Joys Abound.

Here you can listen to all the tracks in full I think (I recommend the long one at the end if you dig prog and have fifteen minutes to spare, though they’re all pretty good), but you have to pay if you want to download either any track, or the album. The good news is … it’s cheap! Enjoy, and have a decent Saturday yourselves.

Tees.

http://thefarmeadow.bandcamp.com/

By: Robi

Robi — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 19:08:27 +0000

Thanks Tees & beermagnet.

HIEROPHANT and WAHOO new to me. My Googling of Antigonus did not help – I got three Macedonian kings!

I especially liked the BODEGA clue – maybe it’s the wine talking.

By: beermagnet

beermagnet — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:24:11 +0000

Thanks Neil for sorting out last Saturday’s SATURDAY this Saturday.
One of those that seem so simple when explained.

By: jmac

jmac — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:53:31 +0000

Another great offering from Tees with 23/22 providing a nice follow-up to Araucaria’s 31ac in that setter’s Christmas prize puzzle.

By: Raich

Raich — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:34:17 +0000

Sil at #1, DARK is used when a theatre is closed – not so common nowadays perhaps.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:47:08 +0000

A nice one from Tees, not too difficult. Quite a contrast to the recycled Tees in yesterday’s i, which I struggled with for ages – and incidentally had an almost identical clue for BODEGA.

But as for today’s (OK, last Saturday’s) offering, quite a range of refernces – Shakespeare, the Marx Brothers, Greek legend, to name but a few. HEIROPHANT was a new word to me, but easily worked out from the clue, and SATURDAY made me smile once I saw the parsing.

A nice touch bringing in Colin Dexter and his creation, Morse, both being cruciverbalists.

Thanks, Tees and Beermagnet.

By: NeilW

NeilW — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:59:57 +0000

Thanks, beermagnet.

I’m just a beginner on the Indy crosswords and came here looking for illumination on 12ac but, since you’ve forced me to do the work…

A(ce) TURD (dropping) in SAY (perhaps)

By: Sil van den Hoek

Sil van den Hoek — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:26:38 +0000

Thanks, deermagnet .

I got everything right – hurrah – but couldn’t explain three of them.
“Closed as theatre” for DARK is still a mystery to me, but that’s perhaps because it’s me.
I am not a very literate person so 23/22 was wasted on me, but I had my thoughts on where it might come from.
Yes, and 12ac – well ??? (three question marks).
Tees, where are thou?

Re 9ac, Chambers gives us for TENDERFOOT: “A person not yet hardened to life in the prairie, mining-camp, etc”, so that’s it methinks. Poor boy!

Another good (and challenging) crossword by Tees with my COD the easy but oh so effective 19d (ARMENIA).

And, finally, 14d: “Unwise to be disrespectful about leader in Russia”. Wasn’t that what Gérard Depardieu recently said … ?