Comments on: Inquisitor 27 – BUST by Lato http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 19:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3088 nmsindy Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:28:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3088 And to me! and to those experts who compiled the latest excellent edition of the Chambers Crossword dictionary with the list of cigars/cigarettes!

]]> By: petebiddlecombe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3087 petebiddlecombe Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:42:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3087 Corona lucis: when I looked, I was fooled by the proximity of the cigar def. to the real one for corona lucis, which made it easy to think that corona lucis was also the cigar. I guess the same happened to Lato.

]]> By: Mike Laws http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3017 Mike Laws Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:13:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3017 When I received the puzzle as a date-specific submission, I was reminded of the fate in store for beer-drinking smokers, which I’d been trying to forget about, and has been a complete pain, because the pub’s owner is a complete ******, as all the regulars, including non-smokers, agree, and the extent of his catering for those deprived of one of their life’s little pleasures is a waste-paper bin outside the front door – next to a gas meter!

But I digress. I always enjoy Lato’s puzzles. I get quite a few submissions which have a splendid basic concept, but the realisation of it is naff – but he takes the trouble to work out the optimum treatment of a theme. The only thing that worried me about this one is that although a corona is a cigar, a CORONA LUCIS isn’t. But since the bloggers haven’t brought that up, I was obviously being too fussy.

]]> By: petebiddlecombe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3012 petebiddlecombe Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:33:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3012 I managed fairly early guesses for ALL and VARIOUS, but OBSERVE didn’t come to me until much later. I think the penny-drop moment was a combination of seeing that ??C??SEDS?A?E could be ENCLOSED SPACE and recognising a possible CORONA at the start of 12D as a cigar type. The other five smokes were solved after findng the theme.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3009 nmsindy Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:43:03 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/07/13/inquisitor-27-bust-by-lato/#comment-3009 An excellent puzzle. Not too difficult a last step (says he, as a serial misser of those.)
Very satisfying to understand all at the end, tallying with all the above explanations. I was helped by making “educated” guesses from looking at the preamble, esp OBSERVE and VARIOUS. And, one for the record books, Peter, I solved it faster than you! 3 hrs 15 mins.

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