Posted by smiffy on 2nd January 2009
A fairly gentle pipe-opener to start the year off here. Despite an easy solve, I haven’t fathomed the wordplay behind 5D yet and am clutching at straws somewhat on 13A.
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Posted by neildubya on 2nd January 2009
There’s a partial “12 Days of Christmas” theme, here with 7, 26,27, 3, and 6 appearing in the grid. It seems a bit odd to have an incomplete theme like this, which makes me think I’m missing something obvious. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by John on 2nd January 2009
A typically nice Phi. I have one or two quibbles with, or at any rate misgivings about, some of the punctuation, but no doubt all will be explained.
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Posted by Andrew on 2nd January 2009
Boatman’s third outing in the Guardian, and, completely by coincidence, my third chance to blog him. Another enjoyable puzzle, with some excellent clues – I particularly liked 25ac, 1dn and 19dn. Best wishes for 2009 to all bloggers, readers and setters.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 2nd January 2009
The preamble stated that five words (one in a shortened form) of a song title would be spelled out in clue order, by single extra letters generated by wordplay in each of 25 clues. This title was stated to be the start of a nine-word quotation, the whole of which would be graphically illustrated in the completed diagram by its author. The remaining nine clues each contained a single extra word which, in various contexts, could stand before one of the nine thematic words in the perimeter, which was also thematically configured.
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