Comments on: Independent 6721/Nimrod http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/ All your clue are belong to us Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Testy http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/#comment-22198 Testy Fri, 02 May 2008 12:47:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1495#comment-22198 I think it was something like "Poet's accompaniment, swapping sides in bank" (although the surface was probably much better) The answer was LYRE (i.e. bank=RELY and swap the RE and the LY sides to get LYRE). It had me puzzled for quite a while too because I thought that the sides were just the L and R and I was wondering what RYLE meant! I think it was something like “Poet’s accompaniment, swapping sides in bank” (although the surface was probably much better)

The answer was LYRE (i.e. bank=RELY and swap the RE and the LY sides to get LYRE). It had me puzzled for quite a while too because I thought that the sides were just the L and R and I was wondering what RYLE meant!

]]> By: neildubya http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/#comment-22193 neildubya Fri, 02 May 2008 12:42:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1495#comment-22193 Sure - if you can remind me what the clue was. Thrown the paper away you see. Sure - if you can remind me what the clue was. Thrown the paper away you see.

]]> By: dave brown http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/#comment-22190 dave brown Fri, 02 May 2008 12:29:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1495#comment-22190 Can someone please provide and explain the answer to 1 across. Can someone please provide and explain the answer to 1 across.

]]> By: Paul B http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/#comment-21909 Paul B Thu, 01 May 2008 16:02:27 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1495#comment-21909 Couple of good hidden inds, I thought. If you 'trouser' something you pocket it, and that activity seems to correspond well enough to what's going on cryptically. 'Dresses' asks for our extended leniency I would say, but using verb forms in a nicely misleading, noun plural kind of a way seems a fine ploy to me. I agree that Sinbad might have dispatched the (a) & (b) terms, but as they are indeed the first two (a & b) elements in the SI, you can only really fault the clue on bagginess. Couple of good hidden inds, I thought.

If you ‘trouser’ something you pocket it, and that activity seems to correspond well enough to what’s going on cryptically. ‘Dresses’ asks for our extended leniency I would say, but using verb forms in a nicely misleading, noun plural kind of a way seems a fine ploy to me.

I agree that Sinbad might have dispatched the (a) & (b) terms, but as they are indeed the first two (a & b) elements in the SI, you can only really fault the clue on bagginess.

]]> By: Michod http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/#comment-21878 Michod Thu, 01 May 2008 13:31:37 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1495#comment-21878 It may be my post-match hangover, but I didn't find this that easy, and put in several wrong answers - SCAN for SLAV (well, it might be an informal term for a Scandinavian!), IN THE STARS at 15ac and CYCLEWAYS instead of CLEARWAYS (OK, that one must have been the drink). At the point when I spotted the Nina I had __SSER OF TWO_NILS, which I thought for a moment might be Nimrod's response to Eimi's Berbatov and Woodgate puzzle. Sadly, I couldn't get 1 and 9ac to begin with T and O respectively! It may be my post-match hangover, but I didn’t find this that easy, and put in several wrong answers - SCAN for SLAV (well, it might be an informal term for a Scandinavian!), IN THE STARS at 15ac and CYCLEWAYS instead of CLEARWAYS (OK, that one must have been the drink).
At the point when I spotted the Nina I had __SSER OF TWO_NILS, which I thought for a moment might be Nimrod’s response to Eimi’s Berbatov and Woodgate puzzle. Sadly, I couldn’t get 1 and 9ac to begin with T and O respectively!

]]> By: Testy http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/#comment-21862 Testy Thu, 01 May 2008 12:13:05 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1495#comment-21862 23A alternatively "crushed" is superfluous. 5D the surface made a nice link to the Nina but I also don't see why the (a), (b) rigmarole was necessary. 24A Personally, I wasn't keen on "trousers" as the indicator, so there you go, chacun a son gout... 23A alternatively “crushed” is superfluous.
5D the surface made a nice link to the Nina but I also don’t see why the (a), (b) rigmarole was necessary.
24A Personally, I wasn’t keen on “trousers” as the indicator, so there you go, chacun a son gout…

]]> By: nmsindy http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/#comment-21856 nmsindy Thu, 01 May 2008 11:17:42 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1495#comment-21856 NOT UP = ton (reversed) = hundred NOT UP = ton (reversed) = hundred

]]> By: nmsindy http://fifteensquared.net/2008/05/01/independent-6721nimrod/#comment-21855 nmsindy Thu, 01 May 2008 11:15:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=1495#comment-21855 LANDRAIL I think it's get = ail = annoy or something like that. Seeing the Nina helped me, too - a little easier than usual from Nimrod LANDRAIL I think it’s get = ail = annoy or something like that. Seeing the Nina helped me, too - a little easier than usual from Nimrod

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