Independent 9221 Dac

12 comments on “Independent 9221 Dac”

1. Nice occasionally to have one that gets a rhythm going. I’m not a fast solver, so my twenty-something minutes for this would pretty much a PB.
   I did like 13a (PROVISO) for natural surface and a neat substitution.
   Thanks to Dac and to Bert & Joyce.
   Still can’t get anywhere with having the setter’s name shown in the Daily.

2. Grant @1.

   Not ideal but a workaround is to visit the puzzle on the website, where the setter is listed, before returning to the app for solving.

   http://puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-crossword-independent/#!201605

   Enjoyable solve today, thanks as ever to setter and bloggers.

3. Grant @ 1 – If you’re an idevice user, I get along pretty well with the paid app from

   http://standalone.com/iphone/crosswords/

   Which includes the setter’s name with each crossword.

   The developer has even been responsive to some bugettes with the Indy crossword which is always nice to see.

   Great crossword and blog as usual many thanks to both.

4. Found this a bit trickier than your normal Dac, but that’s probably just me.

   I think that 4dn is more of a cd cum dd than a dd; and I’m not entirely convinced by STUN GUNS, since I’m struggling to understand how UNS can be French ‘individuals’ except in a very whimsical way.

   Thanks all three, and I’ll add my best wishes for a speedy recovery to the setter.

5. As said, some amusing definitions and wordplay, but for me the fastest solve of all time.

   Thanks to Dac and Bertandjoyce.

6. Yes, fine Dac puzzle as ever. Setter’s name always available to see (by me anyway) on the Indy crossword link (available free to all).
   Yes, K’s D at #4, that’s whimsical, I’d say, conveyed by the qm at end of clue. Thanks B&J for blog.

7. 18d, there is the film “Les Uns et les Autres”, a common expression in French…

8. All very straightforward apart from OSAGE – for some reason I had a mental block both about Indians (American or otherwise) and about herbs.

   Thanks and good wishes to Dac; hope your recovery continues and you’re neither 22 nor 12. Thanks, too, to B&J.

9. Thanks to Geebs & Barking for their suggestions. I’ve tried them both/all and they’re unsatisfactory. The sites are shouty &/or advert-ridden and the fact is I’m a bit ticked-off with the Indy on-line, having paid for a year of it. This is not the forum for that discussion (click away now if you’re not bothered) & I’ll be posting & emailing my moans elsewhere, but briefly a newspaper is more than its news & editorial. The X-words, the telly-&-radio schedules the league-tables & fixtures (sorry, Bert & Joyce) are all part of it. Of course they’re available elsewhere but that’s not the point. I’ll stop now before this turns into a rant.

10. Grant @9.

    Totally agree. And it’s compounded by the disappearance of some of the best writers and reporters from the print era. I have the strong suspicion the move to online was also a convenient time to replace experience with interns.

    What forum are you posting your concerns in ?

    G.

11. I like a Dac, this was no exception, thanks to thee blogger[s] and all the very best to the setter.

12. I love Dac’s puzzles, he is one of the few setters whose wavelengths I feel at home on. No problem with 26, having been there 14 years running with 47 pupils – I was a French teacher too!

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