http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/ Never knowingly undersolved. Thu, 23 May 2013 10:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/#comment-17727 rightback Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:55:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/#comment-17727 Sorry, you’re absolutely right – the subtraction instruction is ‘not initially before’, i.e. no ‘B’ (although ‘not initially’ would also have worked). I think I must have been half-asleep when blogging this! Apologies to the setter.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/#comment-17699 john Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:02:58 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/#comment-17699 23 across
Is before abbreviated to b in (b)ridge?

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/#comment-17574 rightback Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:24:20 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/#comment-17574 No, I don’t think so. Brummie is, I think, also Cyclops in Private Eye, while eimi is the Independent’s crossword editor. And ‘manifesto’ is rarely clued any other way!

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/#comment-17573 Comfy Settee Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:17:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/2008/03/22/guardian-24337-sat-15-marbrummie-called-to-the-bar/#comment-17573 “MANIFESTO” appeared in very similar form in last Friday’s Indy too (set by Eimi) – are Eimi & Brummie one and the same? Or have they been passing notes to each other at the back of the class? ;o)

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