Posted by loonapick on 16th August 2007
As far as Inquisiotrs go, this was pretty straightforward. A few recent puzzles have been of the “extra word in the clue” type, so I am becoming accustomed to them.
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Posted by nmsindy on 16th August 2007
Solving time: 19 mins
* = anagram
ACROSS
1 T(RAJ)AN A Roman Emperor Raj = British rule in India
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Posted by nmsindy on 16th August 2007
A puzzle timed for the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, who to this blogger remains the King – for his earlier music and films especially. There were 7 lines of across words in the puzzle with titles of Elvis songs appearing in 6 of them – the exception being the centre row where ELVIS appeared in the middle. It must have been quite a task to fit in down words so congrats to Nimrod on achieving it. In two down clues, while I’m fairly confident of the answers, I do not understand the wordplay, both noted below. Though I saw the theme immediately, I found it a very difficult puzzle.
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Posted by michod on 16th August 2007
It was mostly quite easy, but with a fiendish top right corner that held me up for ages, and I messed up on two clues early on, which didn’t help. Only finished properly and understood it all as I wrote the blog.
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Posted by tilsit on 16th August 2007
Solving time: 57 minutes
A nice friendly monthly puzzle from Azed, with some clever clueing and no need to resort to brain straining themes or devices. I wonder whether indicating hyphenated answers would help as much as stating whether an answer has multiple words.
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 16th August 2007
Actually for me the difficulty of this puzzle was fairly average, leavened a bit by a typical kind of Cinephile theme, fiends.
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