Posted by Colin Blackburn on 15th June 2007
Good fare from Phi with some excellent clues but with a couple of gaps in the word play and one clue not solved until I check in TEA just before submitting this! Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smiffy on 15th June 2007
Adamant seems to be a faithful adherent of the FT’s general style and tone, and this was solid enough fare . A couple of answers (2d, 28a) were new (for me at least) variants of familiar words, but neither really cause a major hold-up. My only gripe would be that the two “cryptic surface” clues (12a, 5d) were pretty transparent.
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Posted by nmsindy on 15th June 2007
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Posted by ilancaron on 15th June 2007
Maybe it’s jet-lag but I found it pretty hard to get into this puzzle. I wonder whether the NINA in the first column of unches is intentional or just my feverish jet-lagged brain. The threefold set of clues at 13, 16, 24 is a bit confusing – perhaps due to an online glitch with highlighting or again my jet-slugged brain – but I think I’ve decoded the intent: (POT,ASH,ORE).
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