Independent 9514 / Vigo

15 comments on “Independent 9514 / Vigo”

1. great stuff Vigo…..theme a bit Klunky though.
   Thanks to B&J

2. Thank you, baerchen, for suggesting the theme back in February. This one was created just for you!

   V

3. We’re sorry that we missed the theme. We checked Klunk on Google and linked him to Wacky Races but as we are not that familiar with the programme we only spotted Dastardly and Muttley in one of the clues.

4. Thank you Bertandjoyce for the excellent blog.

   Best wishes

   Victoria

5. @Vigo
   Ha! I just went back to the blog of your Feb puzzle and read the comment; nice one!
   Well done for fitting in so many of the participants

6. I had no idea about the theme but I liked reading up about it and finding the series was based on “The Great Race”, one of my favourite films. Still, theme or not, this was enjoyable and not too difficult though I became stuck on BLAST – not a term I would usually associate with ‘party’ – and MILITANTS, which I found quite a hard one. I like the old inverted “W” for “M” trick, so MEEKLY was my pick of the day.

   Thanks to Vigo and B&J.

7. I don’t expect I’d have spotted a theme myself if I hadn’t set the puzzle! Would have been a bit disappointed of baerchen hadn’t though…

   V

8. I’m not so sure about ‘straightforward’. This went into the DNF file, I’m afraid.

   I messed up the SW corner by entering GALS. I’ve said this before, so I’m going to bore you again, but if setters put the reversal indicator in the middle of the clue, which way round am I supposed to work it?

   Lots of good stuff in here, so thank you to Vigo and to B&J. Theme missed by a country mile.

9. We have now had time to check out Wacky Races on Google.

   We can find these thematic links in the solutions:

   BuzzWAGON
   Peter PERFECT
   the ANT HILL MOB
   Pat PENDING
   Penelope PITSTOP
   Rock and Gravel SLAG
   Big and Little GRUESOME
   Sergeant BLAST
   Private MEEKLEY (different spelling in grid)

   There are a number of references we think in the clues too part from 28a.

   Thanks Vigo.

   Maybe baerchen can let us know if we have missed anything!

10. None the wiser about the theme, notwithstanding the above. Not a difficult one, but plenty of neat and pleasing wordplay.

    To Kathryn’s Dad, perhaps you are an impetuous fellow, though you never seem so in the blog, to bung in one of the two – admittedly both valid – answers before getting any other checkers.

    Minor typo in the parsing at 20D with PER/REP.

    Thanks to Vigo and Bertandjoyce.

11. I enjoyed this muchly (or should that be Muttley?) – thanks Vigo!

    Didn’t catch the theme, but nor did I spend that long hunting it.

    I liked Meekly but spent too long worrying over it because I was thinking that it was M(onday) which was doing a headstand and trying to resolve the apparent double duty. Sometimes silly me can’t see the wood for the trees I climb.

    My list of favourites is rather long: SCIENTIST, OILED, the party animal (hopefully not one of those reversed American lasses…), the neat charade forming the ANT HILL, the stones around attraction and the bouncing energy bomb.

    Thanks to B&J for the blog.

12. Enjoyed this puzzle with the majority of it falling easily save for the last few. No particular fave for me today so honours go to the solve and the theming (post-solvum in the latter case as I missed it, of course). Many thanks to Vigo for the crossie and to B&J for the blog.

13. It’s pretty neat this, but one or two inconsistencies slightly spoiled it. 18 across was ambiguous as Kathryn’s Dad says, and 24 across reverses the across ‘on’ convention while 15 across doesn’t. The other thing I saw was 7 down, which I think struggles to communicate what’s required. Other than that, as I say, pretty neat clues.

    I’m afraid I missed the theme, though I know the show well 🙁

    Thanks both, or all three.

14. Almost joined K’s D in the DNF camp, then a last-minute inspiration enabled the remaining few to fall into place. Didn’t spot the theme although I recognised the names Dastardly and Muttley, nor, incidentally, did I realise Wacky Races was inspired by The Great Race – a film I remember for its spoof Prisoner of Zenda sequence among other scenes.

    I thought 7dn was fine – but maybe because I spotted what was going on since a Morph puzzle from 2012 reprinted in the i last week had a similar trick to substitute V for W (V being ‘half’ of W).

    Thanks, Vigo and B&J

15. re#13, while the ‘on’ convention applies in some places, I think the Indy allows it in either direction.

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