Posted by beermagnet on 10th April 2008
I saw Eileen’s plea in puzzle G24359 comments and agree with her – this puzzle needs a blog – and made some notes. Then Real Life got in the way. Then I saw Muck’s comment over on the G Talk site which I have shamelessly raided.
So I have slapped this blog in without a by-your-leave (and by now after too much to drink). So let’s see if it is still there in the morning. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by diagacht on 10th April 2008
Yesterday Cinephile, today Bradman – it’s been an interesting couple of days. Some rather odd words in here! Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by neildubya on 10th April 2008
| Across |
| 1 |
(THE LAW)* in LEAP,ON – LETHAL WEAPON. |
| 9 |
KIN,IS,G,ZED – I always think KIN whenever I see “family” so I got this fairly quickly. |
| 10 |
SINUS – the wordplay seems to be IN in SUS but how does SUS = “Texas”? Is it S[outh],US? If so that’s a bit vague. |
| 12 |
OV,ERR,EACH – “conclusion of many Russians” for OV (e.g RomanOV, IvanOV) had me puzzled for ages. |
| 13 |
OARLOCK – “man spelling” is WARLOCK (a man who practises witchcraft) so replace the W with O. The surface seems complete nonsense to me though (maybe I’m missing something) and I can’t help but think this is an oddly contrived sort of clue. |
| 16 |
EG in LOVER – cheeky &lit |
| 22 |
SO,DO,M – I guess we can justify M for McDonalds on the basis that their logo – “the golden arches” – is an M. |
| 25 |
RE[-A]PER,TORY |
| 26 |
(TRAVEL FINE IM)* – TERMINAL FIVE. I don’t know if this was Punk being very prescient by managing to predict the chaos of T5′s opening or if the clue/puzzle was published with a shorter-than-usual lead time but either way this is a very apposite &lit. |
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| Down |
| 1 |
LIKE IT OR LUMP IT – why is it the “penultimate offer”? |
| 3 |
(ONES GAL)* – AL SEGNO, literally “to the sign” and used to indicate that a performer should continue playing to a point elsewhere in the score marked by a sign. |
| 4 |
[-j]AZZ in COW<,K – WAZZOCK is a great word but it doesn’t look like an easy one to clue so I think Punk has done well here. |
| 6 |
BSE in (OVER)* – OBSERVE. |
| 14 |
TRAD in RAGE – “clothes” is a verb rather rather than a noun and functions as a containment indicator. A well-worded clue like this one though makes this hard to spot. |
| 19 |
NO PARTS (going up) |
| 23 |
hidden in “distresseD HOT Inside” |
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Posted by nmsindy on 10th April 2008
Solving time 13 mins. A long quote which might have made all the difference as I knew it and entered it first time round.
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Posted by ilancaron on 10th April 2008
A clue or two hinting that the setter is a woman. Which I knew already. I wonder a bit about 16D and I think I’m right about 11D (a first for me recognizing cockney rhyming slang if I am).
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Posted by petebiddlecombe on 10th April 2008
Solving time 27 mins without books, then about 20 mins with Chambers to clear up the resulting mess.
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 10th April 2008
Cinephile frequently does themed puzzles and works his themes in many different ways. Here we have the gentlest of themes: three clues that refer to the Dickens novel “The Old Curiosity Shop”.
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