Comments on: FT Puzzle 12502 by Flimsy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/06/ft-puzzle-12502-by-flimsy/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 13:39:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: tilsit http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/06/ft-puzzle-12502-by-flimsy/#comment-2936 tilsit Fri, 06 Jul 2007 19:14:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/06/ft-puzzle-12502-by-flimsy/#comment-2936 I may be wrong but I think FT setters are restricted to the grids they can use.

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/06/ft-puzzle-12502-by-flimsy/#comment-2924 Testy Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:07:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/06/ft-puzzle-12502-by-flimsy/#comment-2924 … Oops I forgot you can’t use less than signs!

Another weak FT grid having 5 answers with less than 50% checking. I guess if I’d spotted the Nina it would have helped, but I didn’t.

I also wonder how many solvers even know that Ninas exist. I certainly wasn’t aware that setters put these hidden messages in until I started reading this blog! Therefore I don’t feel that they could be used as an excuse for dodgy grid.

]]> By: Testy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/06/ft-puzzle-12502-by-flimsy/#comment-2923 Testy Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:05:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/06/ft-puzzle-12502-by-flimsy/#comment-2923 I quite liked 23A personally.

Re 6D a chimera can mean a fanciful idea. See Chambers online (first definition)http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=chimera&title=21st

(…grunt of exertion as I mount my hobby-horse…)
Another weak FT grid having 5 answers with

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