Posted by tilsit on 15th May 2008
Solving time: 28 mins
A jolly little puzzle from Tees with lots of contemporary references. I suppose I still think in old-fashioned crosswordese, but the Indy has certainly brought puzzles into the 21st Century and must be commended for it. Bit of an odd solve in that I amnaged to complete virtually all the right side of the grid before any clues on the left. Struggled for a while with 1 down till the penny finally dropped.
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Posted by nmsindy on 15th May 2008
I found this much tougher than usual from Quixote. Solving time, 43 mins.
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Posted by Uncle Yap on 15th May 2008
This is my maiden post and I will adopt the conventional symbols
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 15th May 2008
I found this puzzle rather difficult even after catching on to the theme, climate change. I got 18A wrong and did not find the solution to 17D. A few clues that struck me as both challenging and clever are 13A, 18A, 20A-4D and 27A.
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Posted by ilancaron on 15th May 2008
NEW AGE TRAVELLER required some wiki-trawling — other than that, I find this puzzle to be a reasonable thing to do while listening to a talk about bid optimizations in internet advertising (which I understood even less). Quite a few cryptic definitions — is Gordius competing with Rufus?
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