Independent 11,478 by Filbert

19 comments on “Independent 11,478 by Filbert”

1. Thanks, Filbert and Quirister!

   Liked SKIN-DEEP, EMMA WOODHOUSE and LATIN!

2. Thanks, Filbert and Quirister. I found this a sheer delight to solve – beautifully smooth and polished surfaces, as you say, and pristine wordplay too. 14a EMMA WOODHOUSE was my standout favourite – having read the book several times, the surname came readily to me.

3. BREAK COVER
   Quirister’s parsing works perfectly fine.
   You can look at this as an extra bit:
   BREAK COVER=BK.
   Coincidentally, there is something called BK plaster cast. BK is below-knee.
   BK can’t stand alone, I think. ‘plaster cast?’ can be taken as a type of plaster
   cast. Wild? 🙂

4. Filbert in a more accessible mood, thank goodness! Much enjoyed so thanks to Filbert and Quirister.

5. Splendid from Filbert, pretty much as always. OUTSIDE LEFT, UNMISTAKEABLE (what fodder!), EMMA WOODHOUSE, ANTELOPE, MATINEE, SWEATPANTS and MATILDA were my big ticks today.

   Thanks Filbert and Quirister

6. Knew anguilla was EEL from the extortionately expensive Basque Christmas delicacy angulas.
   https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180313-why-baby-eels-are-one-of-spains-most-expensive-foods
   Here’s The Guardian‘s Tim Dowling on Something fishy – Tuesday 24 July 2001 – so 22 years and 2 days ago
   There’s a good joke right at the end. 🙂
   A nice gentle fun solve.
   Thanks F&Q

7. Thanks both. I’m not usually a great fan of clues requiring knowledge of foreign languages, perhaps as mine is sparse, however knowing the LATIN for good can be ‘bonus’ feels useful, though I read ‘bonum’ is the default, a conjugation(?) of which I guess gets us there

8. If I were invited to conjugate I would decline.

9. FrankieG @8 – you could say Filbert has made a good case for that.

10. Found this Googling – A grammar book walks into a bar
    * An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars.
    * A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
    * A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
    * An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
    * Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
    * A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.
    * Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.
    * A question mark walks into a bar?
    * A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.
    * Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Get out — we don’t serve your type.”
    * A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
    * A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.
    * Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
    * A synonym strolls into a tavern.
    * At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar — fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
    * A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
    * Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.
    * A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
    * An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
    * The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
    * A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
    * The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
    * A dyslexic walks into a bra.
    * A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
    * A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
    * A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
    * A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony
    –Jill Thomas Doyle

11. A delightful puzzle, lots to make me smile and the smile morphing into giggles as I read ‘A grammar book walks into a bar’!
    Thanks to Filbert, Quirister and FrankieG

12. Thanks for that FrankieG @10. Surprised no zeugmas walked into a bar. Perhaps: A zeugma walked into a bar, took a drink and then its leave.

13. 🙂

14. Just realised I forgot to add the link@6
    Here’s The Guardian‘s Tim Dowling on Something fishy – Tuesday 24 July 2001 – so 22 years and 2 days ago
    And there really is a good joke right at the end. 🙂
    https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,3604,526408,00.html

15. Nice one Frankie G @8
    Made me smile
    Amo
    Amas
    Amant
    You know the rest. Also
    Bonus
    Boni
    Bonum not sure of sesond one

16. Thanks to Filbert for the good clues and great surfaces and to Quirister for the helpful blog.

17. I’ll always give Filbert a go. Less fiendish than sometimes, but tricky at the end – my Latin is lacking, but even I know ‘good’ in French is ‘bon’, so I eventually convinced myself to go for it. Anguilla for EEL and the French resort also new, but fairly clued.

    A surprising but fun sighting of Skol, and other favourites were LAST, SWEATPANTS (the wrong bit of eat/take is bolded in the blog), and UNMISTAKEABLE.

    Thanks Filbert & Quirister.

18. This seemed to me a kind and gentle Filbert when I solved it this morning, in a hurry. I just re-read the clues – what amusing surfaces! Thanks to Filbert and Quirister. And thanks to FrankieG for the jokes!

19. Amoeba @17: something like that always seems to creep in! Thanks – now fixed.

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