Independent 6758 by Nimrod

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This puzzle appeared only on the paper’s website – the previous day’s Virgilius was reprinted in the paper.

I found it very hard, but got there in the end – solving time 70 mins.   There’s quite a bit that I do not fully understand – if anyone can help I’d much appreciate it – it’s the first time I’ve done a puzzle from the site and I found a  little difficult when it can’t be printed out.

So I’m writing this with only my answers in front of me, so forgive absence of clue numbers and some other usual features, but I hope it’s clear enough.

* = anagram < = reversal

ACROSS

MONTANA   It’s a state but I do not understand the rest

OVERHIT    V in anagram

THIRTYSOMETHING   Again, I understand the definition, but not the rest

CLEAR   Double definition

CORNFIELD   Guess Constable must have painted one, but did not check (rifle)* con d make it up if a little loosely.

NO (THIN) G    This was very good

TANK TOP   cf tonk tap

SA LAD BOW L

ERUP T  pure<

VAUGH AN WILLIAMS   See the anagram for the last ten letters but do not understand the rest

RAISINS   Not understood, apart from definition

EX (C) ITED

DOWN

EMOTI (C) ON

INCIDENTAL MUSIC   Cryptic definition

MASTERMIND C HAIR   Theme of the puzzle linked with 6 down   Hair is the musical, not too sure of the rest

PARSE C

TOM (MY) ROT    Wordplay not fully understood

SEAT OF INTELLECT   I eventually worked this out from the anagram, when I’d sufficient crossing letters.  I Googled it then to see what it referred to but nothing much came up so I do not understand the reference in the clue

THAI RESTAURANTS   Got this straightaway – anagram

ST AGED   Liked this

GOODNESS   Double definition I got early on

PUT ASIDE   anagram of a dispute

S (EVER) N   Sn = tin – this was clever, I thought

L (O) ITER   How Americans spell litre

8 comments on “Independent 6758 by Nimrod”

  1. 9A MONTANA Lisa is MONA and TAN is Browning

    11A THIRTYSOMETHING (I GET INTO RHYTHMS)*

    21A VAUGH AN WILLIAMS Presume there’s an “Islamic Law” in VAUGH somehow

    3D MASTERMIND CHAIR Grduates Semester MA’S TERM IN D.C. I reckon (then HAIR)

    5D TOMMY-ROT Don’t know either – last I put in

  2. 21A Probably a reference to his Sea Symphony

    5D It’s OM (order)+MY (setter’s) in TROT

    22A RAISING (growing) with S(ullivan) for G(ilbert), but it doesn’t work for me

  4. To print from the webpage I use (Alt)+(Print Screen), or just (Print Screen), and copy into the Paint program to tidy it up, then copy into Word. Typically it takes 4 screen shots to get all the clues but I always end up with everything on one A4 sheet.

  5. 21A is (U+ISLAM LAW HAVING)*. I presume the “main” reference is to his Sea Symphony.

    Apparently the ancient Egyptians thought that the heart was the “seat of intellect” i.e. they thought that we thought with our hearts not our brains.

  6. 21A is U in anag of Islam law having

    13A is CON round first letter of (rifle*) + d

    I found this a very tough puzzle and guessed it must be Nimrod. I could eventually work out all the clues except TOMMY ROT – thanks Fletch for the explanation.

  7. Many thanks to all for those explanations. Definitely, Friday the 13th – no puzzle in paper, my day to blog, expecting a straightforward Phi, but it’s Nimrod who’s at the harder end of the Indy scale and I’m using the website for the first time to solve!

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