Posted by Ciaran McNulty on 6th February 2009
Puck seems to be in a thirsty, miserable mood, with a number of references to drinking / being drunk as well as depression in the clues. Quite a few tricky ones today, I found, that even with all the checking letters took a while to sort out.
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Posted by Simon Harris on 6th February 2009
Hello again, everyone. I’d like to re-introduce Beelzebub to Fifteensquared, as I think it’s a splendid – yet often overlooked – crossword.
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Posted by neildubya on 6th February 2009
Excellent puzzle. You could pick out 3 or 4 top-notch clues by closing your eyes and randomly pointing with a finger but I especially liked 11 and 1d. I can usually explain everything in a Bannsider puzzle but not this one: 15a, 18, 19, 7 and 15d all need further explanation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Dave Hennings on 6th February 2009
The grid represents some “fields of action”, and so long as they’re not football or rugby fields I should be OK. The subsidiary indication in each down clue has an extra letter; these spell out some key words which identify a quotation whose author is unclued at 16D. Part of the quotation is represented in the grid and must be highlighted, as must something else thematic lurking at the end of a thematic barrier. Sounds fun, and hopefully won’t be too difficult.
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Posted by Hihoba on 6th February 2009
An excellent offering from Lato. Some odd words and a clever and (we thought) pretty taxing theme. Entertaining though!
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Posted by smiffy on 6th February 2009
A fairly benign workout – I even managed to solve this on-screen without too much difficulty (my printer having thrown another late night tantrum). A few of the clues (e.g. 26A, 19D) struck me as good examples that a simple clue to a pedestrian word need not necessarily be an inelegant one.
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Posted by Simon Harris on 6th February 2009
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
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