Comments on: Independent 8196 by Quixote

By: flashling

flashling — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:40:41 +0000

Hi Jan yes a tyre/tire is a band on a wheel, especially the old cartwheel type.

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:12:19 +0000

Would you like t, Crypticsue?;) Sorry, the edit started deleting as I inserted!

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:09:30 +0000

Thanks for the blog Flashling. I really enjoy Mr.M’s puzzles.

K’s D @7

I do sometimes worry about the random stuff that is in my head.

“It is meet and right so to do.” (Book of Common Prayer)

Thanks to Crypicsue for that take on BARN – how obscure, unusual for Quixote.

I’m still wondering how ‘American band’ is TIRE. Is this a US spelling of tyre and if so how is it a band?

By: Bertandjoyce

Bertandjoyce — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:50:11 +0000

You’re not the only one K’s D! As far as barns are concerned, Bert says that some large spaces or buildings are described as ‘a barn of a building’. However, Joyce is also concerned about what stuff is in his head as well!

Thanks to flashling and Quixote.

By: Kathryn's Dad

Kathryn's Dad — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:32:24 +0000

Thanks, flashling. As Sue said, a typical Quixote – most of it went in nicely, but I too was stuck on BARN. Great surface reading, but ‘big building’ for BARN? Well, I suppose so, although there are some barns near me that aren’t that big.

However, DIPPER, SPARE BEDROOM and TREATED LIKE DIRT were very good.

And I put MEET straight in. ‘It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.’ Luke Chapter 15 in the King James Bible, since you ask. So I guess that counts as ‘archaic’.

I do sometimes worry about the random stuff that is in my head. Anyway, thank you to Q for today’s puzzle.

By: Quixote

Quixote — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:15:22 +0000

Thanks for feedback. I’ve heard this query about oxygen before. O is the symbol for the element oxygen and there is no need to go into all this atom/molecule discussion. I may be subtle sometimes, but not on this occasion!

By: allan_c

allan_c — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:55:59 +0000

… and the clue to 19d was quite subtle with its ‘minimal oxygen’ since, strictly speaking, the chemical symbol O refers to a single atom (not even a molecule, which is O2) of oxygen – and you can’t get more minimal gthan that!

By: allan_c

allan_c — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:51:45 +0000

I too got 9dn without fully understanding it. And for 22dn I initially had MOOT, thinking of the Moot Halls one finds in various rural towns, which used to be places of assembly (maybe still are) though I couldn’t see how ‘illegal’ fitted in. But thanks to the online check button I then realised it had to be MEET, enabling me to get LOOK-SEE.

Thanks, Quixote and flashling.

By: NealH

NealH — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:16:56 +0000

9 lost me completely and barn was little more than a tentative guess. I also wasn’t totally sure on 22. Fortunately, when I typed them into the online version, it flashed up the message to say the puzzle was completed – otherwise, I’d still have been staring at 9.

By: Paul A

Paul A — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:04:12 +0000

Typo – the tree in 15a is BEECH