Comments on: Independent 6775/Nimrod

By: Testy

Testy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:03:17 +0000

Ahh! That makes much more sense (I just kept thinking A1 for best!)

By: nmsindy

nmsindy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:54:00 +0000

13A I read as A (Best) ISLE (Man) without being 100% sure. Did like FINISHING SCHOOL

By: neildubya

neildubya — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:53:07 +0000

13a – I think it’s A = best, ISLE (of Man).

By: Testy

Testy — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:24:37 +0000

Mixed bag indeed.

Re 13A how do you get the SLE is this an indirect anagram of LES? If so I’m not keen.

By: Mick h

Mick h — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:46:20 +0000

Thanks for the explanations – I didn’t get the wordplay for SHIITES or the definition of ENGROSS.
Good puzzle, liked 2d REGENTS and 13a AISLE.
One quibble – I felt slightly uncomfortable ignoring the umlaut in Furtwängler. I know we ignore them in grid words, because they’re all in caps, but can ‘twang’ (as opposed to ‘twäng’) truly be said to be in Furtwängler?

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:19:13 +0000

11. I meant ‘A’ to be ‘one’.

By: conradcork

conradcork — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:12:22 +0000

11. The ‘a’ at the front is ‘advance’.

By: conradcork

conradcork — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:11:24 +0000

19. Chap’s position is his site. Move the nazis (SS) to the outside and you get shiites.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:02:58 +0000

10ac: I didn’t know this before but I find [Collins]; ‘engross’: ‘to write or copy [manuscript] in large legible handwriting’.

11ac: this is pretty tortuous but could it be ME[compiler] then ‘in advance’ IT’LL [rev.] ‘over’ win [gain] A??