Posted by neildubya on 24th January 2008
Some clever grid construction here as one phrase appears twice in the grid and there’s a Nina too (see 5a below for an explanation). I found this quite hard going in places – I guessed a few answers and I couldn’t get 27a at all. I also don’t understand 28a. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by neildubya on 24th January 2008
As previous discussed, I’m not a nature-boy, but ”False Acacia” seems a tad obscure - oh well, thanks for the Botany lesson, Brummie. Otherwise quite a blood-thirsty set of clues todays with some great wordplay.
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Posted by nmsindy on 24th January 2008
Some unusual words made this one a little harder for me than some recently from Quixote.
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 24th January 2008
A moderately easy and thoroughly splendid offering from Cincinnus this week. It is a bit heavy on double-definition clues but there’s nothing wrong with that especially since only one of them is a plain and simple example; the others are decidedly clever.
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