Independent 10497 / Klingsor

13 comments on “Independent 10497 / Klingsor”

1. Thanks Duncan and Kingslor

   Re 28, I think the m may be expressed (somehow to mean removed) from sentiment

2. PS I’ve just remembered that a mother might express milk, so that works.

3. Julia Clark @ 1 and 2

   Thanks – that makes a lot more sense than anything I have been able to come up with.

    

4. A toughy. Nearly gave in a few times but persevered and finished. Couldn’t parse the “easy” bit of 18a though.

   My first guess for 22a was ELSAN but, since I didn’t know it, I didn’t put it in until it looked likely from crossers so I looked it up. The SW quadrant proved hardest for me until FOURSCORE suddenly came to mind, then KNOXVILLE and the rest followed.

   BLAST was my loi. Parsed SENTIENT as Julia.

   Thanks to Klingsor and Duncan.

5. I’m new here but I took it as “sentiment” (thought) with “male” (m) expressed, giving sentient.

6. Thanks for the blog, Duncan.

   Another excellent puzzle from Klingsor, meticulously clued and with lovely surfaces throughout [especially 1ac LA BOHÈME, 26ac APING, 28ac SENTIENT, 6dn AS A MATTER OF FACT and 17dn EYESIGHT].

   I loved the construction of 3dn HISTORICAL NOVEL and 19dn YEARLY and smiled at 22ac ELSAN – a new slant on the old crossword standby ELAN [dash], which we don’t seem to have seen for a while.

   Many thanks, Klingsor – most enjoyable, as ever.

7. A two-session struggle for me, with the SE corner falling into place last, and only with the help of a wordlist – sorry! Saw the pangram and parsed ‘sentiment’ like Julia and Hovis.  Thanks Duncan and Klingsor.

8. Fine puzzle as always from Klingsor.  Didn’t spot the pangram, but I’m not going to beat myself up.  Also didn’t see how SENTIENT worked, so thanks to Clare and Julia for explaining that one.

   I particularly liked the teasing wordplay for HISTORICAL NOVEL and BLAST.

   Bravo, Klingsor, and thanks to Duncan for the usual meticulous and thorough blog.

9. A bit of a struggle here and there but we got it all in the end.  In 11ac we had to check ‘ran’ for ‘incurred’ in Chambers, and we guessed MANATEE for 4dn before we eventually saw how to parse it.  But we liked the ‘reverse engineering’ in the clue for 3dn, as well as OUTWIT and FOURSCORE.  We did spot the pangram, but only after we’d finished.

   I see we have one, if not two, newcomers to the site today, so welcome Clare and Julia.

   Thanks, Klingsor and Duncan.

10. Found this a good challenge, and finished but had to come here to get the parsing of SENTIENT. Also had to look up ELSAN, which I hadn’t heard of but it seemed to fit the wordplay.

     

    EYESIGHT was my favourite but there was a lot to admire. Thanks to all.

     

     

11. In the end I had to do a word search to get 25ac, which is annoying as Samuel Barber’s Knoxville, Summer of 1915 is a favourite piece of music for me.

12. TILE for HAT is a new one for me. Collins lists HAT under TILE, but not the other way round, thus one for the capacious box labelled “hope to remember it next time”. Overall middling tough, got just over half. I enjoy clues like 20a that split the words or phrases into chunks without requiring assembly from individual constituent letters, or complicated manoeuvres. APPLET ART -> APPLE TART was a favourite yesterday. They infuriate delightfully, as they seem obvious once cracked.

13. Thanks to duncanshiell and Klingsor

    Klingsor never disappoints.

    16a Happy memories of Monty Python’s “Upper class twit of the year” competition.

    “Up” is a highly versatile word.

    The game is afoot

    The game is up

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