Comments on: Independent 6730/Mass

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:59:03 +0000

Thanks, yes, that’s it, I hadn’t realised the whole expression fitted in to the clues. But I think they work best when it’s ‘8 Down’ at the end of the clue and the whole word is a bird. In clues like 2dn, it seems a bit of a stretch to have the definition of a bird as ‘Gets the bird’.

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:44:08 +0000

That’s how I saw it, too, Michod.

By: Michod

Michod — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:45:12 +0000

They’re just link words - I think we’re to read the clues as (wordplay) gets the (definition)

By: Wil Ransome

Wil Ransome — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:50:00 +0000

I seem to be missing something: if 8dn is ‘gets the bird’ then how do all those references to 8dn refer simply to a bird?

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:25:17 +0000

Understand it now. R also is King = rex

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:24:19 +0000

KING, I think comes from (swan)KING A little mystified by STORM COCK as it seems an R rather than a K is leaving ‘crock’ = pot, but it might be something else entirely. Enjoyable puzzle, as always from Mass.