Posted by smiffy on 19th December 2008
Apologies for the lateish and skeletal blog today; didn’t manage to get near a PC earlier, and there’s an impending blizzard in this neck of the woods, so I have to dash before I get snowed in.
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Posted by nmsindy on 19th December 2008
A puzzle with a seasonal theme. I’d not heard the quote before so it took me quite a while to tease it all out esp as, understandably, fitting the quote in meant more unfamiliar words had to be used. Solving time, 39 mins.
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Posted by Ciaran McNulty on 19th December 2008
Not too hard today but a few unsatisfactory clues.
“” = homophone
* = anagram
< = reversed
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Posted by neildubya on 19th December 2008
Nice puzzle with an amusing mini-theme. I couldn’t get 10 and I don’t understand all of the wordplay in 5. Not completely convinced about 14d either, although I can’t see what else the answer might be. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by duncanshiell on 19th December 2008
I have certainly increased my knowledge of obscure Gods and Goddesses from different mythologies as a result of this puzzle, but am very grateful that I had a copy of the specific reference book identified by the extra letters. Further research showed that relying on Google and Wikipedia alone would not always have thrown up the relevant Gods and Goddesses very quickly.
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