Comments on: Independent 6926/Phi (Prize puzzle 27-12-08) http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/independent-6926phi-prize-puzzle-27-12-08/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:26:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Phi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/independent-6926phi-prize-puzzle-27-12-08/#comment-61688 Phi Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:46:53 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4801#comment-61688 Actually, I think I should leap in and say I didn’t manage to get the partridge in. I got the five in the grid but just couldn’t get enough letters from the clues to do the other seven. I felt the partridge was the one to go because at the end of the song I’m heartily sick of it…

]]> By: Richard Heald http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/independent-6926phi-prize-puzzle-27-12-08/#comment-61680 Richard Heald Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:12:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4801#comment-61680 The “12 Days of Christmas” theme wasn’t incomplete at all, Neil – the first letters of the clues, read in order, spelled out all the missing items!

]]> By: Geoff Moss http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/02/independent-6926phi-prize-puzzle-27-12-08/#comment-61666 Geoff Moss Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:05:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=4801#comment-61666 7a The Chambers definition for ‘swan-song’ is ‘the fabled song of a swan just before its death’.

6d ch = chief is confirmed in Chambers and Collins.

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