Comments on: Guardian 24270/Puck http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/28/guardian-24270puck/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 21:05:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Shirley http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/28/guardian-24270puck/#comment-10383 Shirley Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:07:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/28/guardian-24270puck/#comment-10383 Alan – 19D is Murphy which is the Irish (Beckett) name for a potato e.g King Edward

]]> By: AlanR http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/28/guardian-24270puck/#comment-10381 AlanR Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:12:06 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/28/guardian-24270puck/#comment-10381 I enjoyed this – as Stan said, doable: I managed to get everything except 19down without having heard of any of the works by Beckett (except Godot, and I didn’t realise that was by him).
Themed crosswords can be a bit disappointing sometimes if the themed clues are unsolvable before looking at a list of the author’s books (or whatever) and trivial afterwards.

]]> By: Stan http://www.fifteensquared.net/2007/12/28/guardian-24270puck/#comment-10380 Stan Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:27:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2007/12/28/guardian-24270puck/#comment-10380 If you want to stay in your pit recovering, give me a shout and I’ll blog it for you.

I haven’t blogged yet this week – I was assigned the Boxing Day Guardian crossword – and I drove three or four times round Cheshire before a petrol-station bloke broke it to me that there’s no Guardian on Boxing Day … Guess that’s the sort of trick you’d expect to be played on the newbie (get me a left-handed screwdriver, go and ask for a long stand etc.)

Puck is a favourite compiler of mine – usually do-able, but always amusing and clever.

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