Comments on: Independent 8,183 by Tyrus (Saturday Prize Puzzle, 05/01/13)

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:34:23 +0000

Thanks, Graham, you’re absolutely right of course.

The tool I use to get started on these posts seems to drop the “+” character for reason. I try to stick ‘em back in but inevitably miss one or two sometimes.

By: Graham Pellen

Graham Pellen — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:18:57 +0000

24A is SVEN + GAL + I.

2D is ON + SET.

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:22:04 +0000

Hi RD –

I think it’s “constituents to”, meaning the letters of. It’s a little oblique as it doesn’t explicitly say “shuffle these letters around”, but I think the very smooth politically-themed surface reading justifies it.

By: redddevil

redddevil — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:15:05 +0000

what was the anagrind in 22 ac?

By: Tyrus

Tyrus — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:26:31 +0000

Many thanks for the blog and comments – glad the ‘punishment’ didn’t prove too severe.

Happy New Year to all.

By: Flashling

Flashling — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:45:43 +0000

Duchess of Cambridge perhaps Simon…

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:37:41 +0000

Anyone care to explain the Cambridge connection?

By: allan_c

allan_c — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:05:43 +0000

A fairly gentle amble but some head-scratching required. I liked 5dn; the clue would have worked perfectly well without ‘Cambridge’ but its inclusion was just what was needed for a spot of misdirection. And another nice misdirection in the surface of 22ac.

Thanks, Tyrus and Simon.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:41:04 +0000

I’ve just realised why KATE was “Cambridge female”. D’oh!

By: MaleficOpus

MaleficOpus — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:23:02 +0000

Thanks Simon and Tyrus.

Like you, KATOWICE and WARBLE were my last in, and I found the right-hand side harder in general.

I parsed KATOWICE as O(ld) W(omen) I(n) C(harge) with KATE round.

As Tramp said, superb.