Posted by neildubya on 25th January 2008
Having just blogged Nimrod’s Thursday puzzle (6637) I can say that I found this one the easier of the two. I’m not really a big fan of long anagrams and I was lucky to get the two here reasonably early on. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Hihoba on 25th January 2008
This was a corker!! I’m still not completely convinced that we’ve got it right, but here goes.
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Posted by smiffy on 25th January 2008
As one has come to expect from Bradman (or any other of his pseuDONyms), flawless technical merit receives a healthy dollop of creative/lateral thinking. ‘Twas ever thus, it seems.
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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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Posted by ilancaron on 23rd January 2008
A classic Paulene challenge though no Araucarian cross-refs nor complex multi-word anagrams. But still some charming and clever clues… as per usual I always feel entertained and gratified having solved Paul. Lots of clever cryptic definitions and allusions in the wordplay.
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Posted by neildubya on 23rd January 2008
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Posted by nmsindy on 23rd January 2008
This had everything you could ask from a daily cryptic from this top setter. Excellent misdirection, great variety, and all with everyday words. Flawless construction. Solving time, 25 mins.
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Posted by John on 22nd January 2008
A tour de force from Virgilius. Somehow he has managed to get some reference to a topic that continues to increase in importance into every clue, either in the answer or in the clue itself, sometimes more than once. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by linxit on 22nd January 2008
Quite a lot of general knowledge required to complete this one, although the trickier answers all had friendly wordplay so it can’t be accused of unfairness.
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Posted by beermagnet on 22nd January 2008
Sorry this is late. I should have posted this yesterday but simply forgot.
This seemed so small after the Xmas monster. I’m not sure I’ve chosen correctly on 29A. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by tilsit on 21st January 2008
Solving Time: around 75 minutes.
A tough challenge from Azed this week with some straight-forward stuff, but one or two really tricky clues that took me a while to work out.
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Posted by NealH on 21st January 2008
A solid puzzle by Glow-Worm, but I didn’t really understand the logic behind either of the 12 clues. Read the rest of this entry »
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