Independent 10024 / Gila

24 comments on “Independent 10024 / Gila”

1. RAM is Random Access Memory, so RANDOM is a “bit of it”; and, as you say, ROM is R AND OM.

2. For some reason, I have gone off Americanisms during the last two years-cant think why. So CAN and HEAT annoyed me although CANNED HEAT were always fine .

   Never heard of FATBERGS- hope I dont again

   Otherwise fine and thanks for blog

3. Struggled a bit and ultimately failed to finish. I didn’t know FATBERG and no word fit I tried knew it either.

   Also didn’t know DALSTON but it was my first guess for the anagram.

   Guessed INTACT but didn’t know ACT bit.

   Didn’t know TABLA or ‘tab’ for music sheet.

   Stupidly entered an unparsed PETROL CAR for 15d. Grrr!

   Favourite was RANDOM, parsed as Andrew@1.

   Thanks (I think) to Gila and to Duncan.

4. Thanks to Duncan & Gila for a stiffish workout. Failed to parse FATBERG properly, so ta for that.

   For TABLA, I had TAB as the abbreviated bit: it’s short for the more formal ‘tablature’, and I think that L[eft] can take care of itself as an abb. (I play guitar and have shelves full of ‘tab’).

5. I too found this a real brain workout and had to reveal 1a, which was an answer I knew of, but not one that came to mind (clogging up the subconscious somewhere perhaps).  Then I got as far as GREAT = FAT and source of biodiesel  = B but was hoping for illumination with the erg … but now I see it’s an &lit: an anagram of GREAT B F S.  Clever.

   A bit of a shock to the system on a Wednesday, but an enjoyable one.

   Thanks to Gila and Duncan.

6. FATBERG is (GREAT B D F)* & lit. V good all round.

   Thanks Gila, Duncan

7. Dang, too slow, and I got the initials wrong too.

8. Thanks Kitty and James. Wish I had thought of the anagram – may have guessed the answer then.

9. Andrew@1 and Kitty@5

   Thanks for showing the correct parsings of FATBERGS and RANDOM

   I wasn’t close to the FATBERGS one, but I should have got RANDOM as I know full well that RAM is RANDOM Access memory.

10. copmus@2 Quite agree. English is such a rich and diverse language that we don’t need Americanisms.Setters who complete grids without recourse to them or slang from anywhere are to be applauded.

    That said,thanks to Gila for a good workout and to Duncan for his careful and detailed blog.

11. The music sheet for guitar is called TABS, briefly TAB.

    Brilliant, I have been waiting for FATBERG. Is this the first puzzle to include this word? Not in the dictionaries yet,nor maybe just not in mine.

    I enjoyed 5d, though it feels like two bits of wordplay.

    My favourite is CANNABIS. I also thought TONSORIAL was good.

    Great stuff Gila and many thanks Duncan

12. Favourite after FATBERG, that is.

13. Dutch @11

    “Not in the dictionaries yet,nor maybe just not in mine.”

    It’s not in Chambers or Collins but it is in the ODE.

14. A bit of a slog and I couldn’t finish.  Another PETROL CAR here, only thing I could think that fitted.

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15. Many thanks to Duncan for the great blog and to everyone who has taken time to comment. Much appreciated as always.

    Not sure if FATBERG/S has made an appearance elsewhere, but it’s the first time here it seems. I’m glad to see it’s already in the dictionary too. Long may the English language – and crosswords written in it – continue to diversify, change and be enriched through the addition and usage of new words, phrases and slang from anywhere and everywhere.

    Ali/Gila

16. I’ve no objection to the use of non-UK English slang in a puzzle provided that some indication of where the word in question is in use is given in the clue.  This is a crossword published in the UK, aimed primarily at UK solvers, and I do not think it is fair game for setters to assume that solvers have knowledge of such words.  The clue for 15 down, for example, was meaningless to me, and it seems, several other people who have commented, although it appeared that PATROL CAR was perhaps the most likely answer.  If, for example, the clue had been worded along the lines of “Machine allowing heat to circulate in LA”, it could have been more accessible.  As it is, I’m sorry to say that the inclusion of such words diminished the pleasure for me in solving this puzzle.

17. Perhaps a flag next to clues featuring non-UK English answers would assist those who have no exposure to language outside our own fair shores. Stars and Stripes for American English, by way of example.

    FATBERG went down well with me too. Thanks to Gila and Duncan.

18. Kaspersky wants to know whether the extra text is added in Firefox – I usually use Edge.

    By the way, those objecting to Americanism should read Lynne Murphy’s The Prodigal Tongue which considers the evolution of the English language on both sides of the Atlantic.  Many things people believe to be Americanisms aren’t.

19. And also Internet explorer.

20. And now trying with a new dll supplied by Kaspersky.

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21. So, that didn’t work.

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22. dear Dormouse

    what on earth is going on, old fruit?

23. A bug in Kaspersky’s Password manager that means sometimes when I post here from Edge it adds that extra text.  I’ve been having a long e-mail conversation with Kaspersky support and they keep asking me to produce logs in an attempt to solve the problem.  Seems to be that when I start Edge, the extension for the password manager doesn’t get enabled correctly.  If I go through a ritual of disabling and re-enabling the extension it sometimes works.

24. Like that time.

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