Comments on: Independent on Sunday 1198/Poins

By: Rowland

Rowland — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:14:27 +0000

That UNION JACK clue is appalling IMO. Without the word count you are lost as to what sort of flag it is, or where it might be from. Rest of puzzle usual nice, relaxing stuff.

Cheers
Rowly.

By: allan_c

allan_c — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:29:51 +0000

I share others’ thoughts on the ambiguity of 25ac. And I thought a question mark would have been appropriate in 28ac.
Otherwise good stuff. Thanks, Poins and Pierre.

By: Dormouse

Dormouse — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:25:47 +0000

1dn was a double misdirection, as the most famous physicist Hertz was Heinrich, the one they named the frequency unit after, and uncle of Gustav.

25dn, I realised both “flag” and “jack” were valid and had to wait for some checking letters.

By: sidey

sidey — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 10:07:00 +0000

Not bad for a Sunday puzzle. My quibble with 25 is the plural Poles, I’m not sure I’ve seen a single flag on multiple poles. Perhaps ‘A standard upheld by staff’ would solve both quibbles as it is said that it is only a Union Jack when flown from a jack-staff.

I think at least one setter has moved on to another French cheese recently crypticsue.

By: crypticsue

crypticsue — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:23:34 +0000

Looking at my piece of paper I don’t think I can have had many problems with this one as my writing is fairly neat. I always think of 25a as Union Jack so I would have had problems if the solution had been flag! Personally I will be glad when setters move on to a different cheese of the month – we’ve had an awful lot of brie in cryptics lately.

Thanks to Poins and Pierre.