Posted by nmsindy on 14th June 2007
I mentioned last week that, in the paper’s relaunch, they’d moved the puzzle away from the penultimate page. Well, there must have been a problem or two, because, this week, if you go to that page, you’re told where to find the crossword (on P 75 again)
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Posted by tilsit on 14th June 2007
There are few perks associated with this role, but it’s a real pleasure to comment on a brilliant puzzle every now and then and today is one of those days.
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Posted by michod on 14th June 2007
A good, not too difficult puzzle from Pasquale, with two long double-entry clues of 24 letters each making up the perimeter. Both were very clever anag + lits, but such clues present an immediate dilemma. Do you sit and try to work out the long anagrams cold, leaving the rest of the puzzle half-solved, or do you, as I did, wait for the checking letters to give the game away, like in a game of hangman. The trouble with that is that the anagram becomes almost incidental, you just decide it looks about right and admire the setter’s ingenuity. Took just over 10 mins.
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 14th June 2007
This puzzle struck me as a classic Cincinnus, fairly easy but very elegant.
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