Comments on: Azed 1,802 – Vocabulary 7 down.

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roland — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:35:02 +0000

a distinguished family, the Nameys- three generations of clue-setters, by the look of it.

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ilancaron — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 19:40:55 +0000

slightly off-topic: amusingly if you click on the link for the PDF version of the latest online Azed (1804): namely, http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Observer/documents/2006/12/22/1804_dec24.pdf

you’ll note the following:

AZED No. 1,801 Prizewinners
1 Namey Namey, Address Address
2 Namey Namey, Address Address
3 Namey Namey, Address Address

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roland — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:30:07 +0000

thank you for this, I have been tearing my hair out over it. Sorry to those who run this excellent page for being sneaky!

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DFM — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:25:31 +0000

Agreed – it’s possible to put in the correct spelling but not to construct it from the clue. As it happens, this word falls within my wife’s area of expertise!

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roland — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:33:30 +0000

without saying what it is, do you agree that there may be a spelling mistake in the latest puzzle? or am i missing something?

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linxit — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:06:09 +0000

Rats! That’s twice in recent weeks I’ve been stumped by one clue in Azed (the other one was FLOC in 1799). In this case it was 18ac – I guessed POOTED. Don’t know why, it didn’t make sense. Looking again now I see that pinto and pioted are on the same page in Chambers (although you get redirected to ‘pyot’). D’oh!