Comments on: Independent 6950/Tees (Prize Puzzle 24-01-09) http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/30/independent-6950tees-prize-puzzle-24-01-09/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 08:16:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tees http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/30/independent-6950tees-prize-puzzle-24-01-09/#comment-66033 Tees Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:09:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5304#comment-66033 Thanks for the mightily kind remarks – spot the pangram, anyone?

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/30/independent-6950tees-prize-puzzle-24-01-09/#comment-65984 nmsindy Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:30:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5304#comment-65984 Simon, this is crossword convention, rightly or not, not a particular feature of this excellent puzzle. A false capital is allowed. It gives extra flexibility to setters, but experienced solvers can spot it which helps towards solution. All part of the game, like everything else.

]]> By: Simon Harris http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/30/independent-6950tees-prize-puzzle-24-01-09/#comment-65975 Simon Harris Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:44:23 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5304#comment-65975 Enjoyed this one too, as is typically the case with the Saturday puzzles. I also had to join the cheaty club on “Miletus”.

I can’t help but take issue though with the deliberately misleading capitalisation, though. “Famed Barker” was one, “in Bow” at 16 was another, and there were several more. That sort of thing can be clever when it’s hidden at the start of the clue, but to simply break the laws of English just to make a clue “harder” doesn’t really seem like cricket to me.

]]> By: Allan_C http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/30/independent-6950tees-prize-puzzle-24-01-09/#comment-65906 Allan_C Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:05:29 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5304#comment-65906 I obviously need a more up to date edition of Chambers!

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/30/independent-6950tees-prize-puzzle-24-01-09/#comment-65893 nmsindy Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:45:49 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5304#comment-65893 Great puzzle, with some really cracking clues with great misdirection. Disco biscuits is in Chambers.

]]> By: Allan_C http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/30/independent-6950tees-prize-puzzle-24-01-09/#comment-65885 Allan_C Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:33:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5304#comment-65885 Thanks for the explanation of 17d. It had to be ‘equitable’ but I didn’t understand the disco biscuits bit.
In 10a I guessed ‘Miletus’ and deduced it was ‘tu’ in ‘miles’. Having found ‘gloriosa’ as a genus of climbing plants, I looked up ‘miles’ in Chambers to see if it might be some odd name for a member of that genus, and was delighted to find instead a separate entry for ‘miles gloriosus’.
But a great puzzle overall, and fairly easy going after some of the toughies during the week.

]]> By: beermagnet http://www.fifteensquared.net/2009/01/30/independent-6950tees-prize-puzzle-24-01-09/#comment-65884 beermagnet Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:17:35 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=5304#comment-65884 10A I had the great good fortune of visiting Miletus a while ago. I’d certainly recommend that area with Ephesus, Didymus, Miletus etc. in easy travelling range and superb Turkish hospitality. So I had no problem with the answer but did wonder if it might prove hard for others.
3D I think George is specifically (or at least originally) the autopilot software.
4D I took it that Alec D’Urberville rather misused Tess in Hardy’s novel.
20D Kent is very much the Garden of Eden^H^H^Hngland for its orchards and of course beautiful hopfields.
It was Air Taxi I was stuck on for ages – sometimes CD’s really stump me.
Yet again I had great fun from Tees – for me, his crosswords have become “must dos”.

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