Independent 11,881 by Twin

13 comments on “Independent 11,881 by Twin”

1. LOi 26a ADORE – “sneaky”, indeed. XLent puzzle. Thanks T&Q

2. I agree the clue for ADORE is brilliant, I couldn’t work it out but it had to be that. Thanks Twin and Quirister.

3. A tricky but fun puzzle – I especially enjoyed the appearance of GU. We have a proliferation of their little glass pots around our kitchen. I only properly parsed ADORE a while after solving.

   Thanks (and, as I see on Twitter, happy birthday) to Twin & thanks Quirister.

4. A good Thursday morning challenge. All done but needed parsing for CHURCH and the v tricky ADORE. Thanks T and Q.

5. ADORE was too hard for me to unravel, in spite of researching seaweed and bread. I enjoyed the puzzle though and the blog expresses what I felt about it. Thanks.

6. Thanks Quirister; there was a lot of to enjoy here, so thanks to Twin. I echo the focus on ADORE by other posters – I’d never have unravelled that parsing, even having guessed the correct solution from crossers and the definition.

7. Thanks both. Enough said about a certain clue other than I didn’t ADORE it. ON THE MEND raised another minor query for me in that ‘on end’ certainly means successively but if we say ‘minutes on end’ do we mean ‘for ages’ or just without a break?

8. TFO @7, I agree that “on end” is a bit ambiguous: it does mean continuously, but the phrase “minutes on end” or “days on end” as a whole always seems to have the sense of “a long time”.

9. New to the Indy over the last couple days–recent news elsewhere has put me in the market for new distractions. (I’ve been doing the Guardian for over a decade; in the past I’ve found the Indy’s online interface off-putting, and I still do, but I’ll overlook that for now.) Thanks for the blog, as there were a couple that I entered unparsed, including ADORE. As I’m an American, the chocolate and dessert brand names were also both new to me, but I learned to cope with that sort of thing long ago.

10. mrpenney @9: I think I’ve seen your name on the Guardian blogs, but welcome to the Indy too. I wondered if the brand names might cause some annoyance, but I like your tolerant attitude!

11. mrpenney @ 9 ft.com/crosswordapp takes you their very straightforward site. There’s a good range of setters there too.

12. mrpenney@9 : I too struggled with the Indy’s user interface. I’ve made it slightly more bearable by tinkering with the settings in the menu behind the I Ching symbol in the top left corner.

    Thank you for the blog, quirister – I fell into the wrong parse for ADORE, and I was reading ‘out’ as the grind in DEAD TO THE WORLD so I was blowed if I could see how ‘stranger’ could be the def! (Seems like a rather stretchy anagrind, though..)
    And I loved your wry comment about the IDE in IDENTIFY! 🙂

13. I’m late to this puzzle so I’m sure no-one is around to read this, but I can’t resist saying that this was an all-in-and-parsed for me, and I was pretty chuffed to get ADORE and in particular that my relatively prompt decision that it had to be both a lift-and-separate of Rod Laver and a replacement of XL turned out to ve correct, even if I needed checkers to get me to the final answer.

    For me there was lots to enjoy here, and I didn’t really have any quibbles.

    Thanks both

    [I’m not sure what people dislike specifically about the Indy app interface; I like the pencil function, the check/reveal letter function and the fixed-position clue display, and I miss them in the Guardian. I do tweak the settings to make it behave more Guardian-like in terms of the typing etc, just for consistency. The one thing I miss from the Guardian here is the hyphens and word separators in the grid.]

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