Independent 6984 by Nimrod
Posted by nmsindy on 5th March 2009
Tough puzzle from Nimrod with 6 15-letter entries. Solving time, 46 mins.
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Guardian 24639 / Brummie
Posted by mhl on 5th March 2009
Good stuff from Brummie today. (I can’t take much credit for this post, since Jenny solved most of the puzzle while I was working this morning.) Thanks to smutchin for pointing out the Cinderella theme: CINDERS, FAIRY GODMOTHER, PRINCE CHARMING, UGLY SISTERS and BUTTONS are scattered about the grid.
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Financial Times 13,017 / Falcon
Posted by Gaufrid on 5th March 2009
A gentle mental workout today with nothing too difficult though the proverb at 14,18 is probably not one of the most well-known. 29a was nicely misleading and had me trying to think of a homophone of ‘Quito’ for a (very) short while.
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Across
1 ISABEL IS AB (sailor) EL (the, in Spanish)
5 IMPUDENT IMP (devil) [st]UDENT (undergraduate throwing stone)
9 SWEETSOP SWEETS[h]OP (husband leaving place selling confectionary)
10 RENOWN E (east) in RN (our sailors) OWN (have)
11 FERRET RR (bishop) in FEET (walkers)
12 RANDOLPH *(ARNOLD) PH (public house) – Thomas Randolph, 17th century English poet
14,18 HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES HANDSOME (striking) I (one) SAS HANDSOME (good-looking) DOES (females)
22 TARTUFFE TAR (sailor) TUFFE[t] (footstool briefly)
25 SALLOW ALL (everything) in SOW (pig)
26 BANNER dd
27 NOISETTE SETT (badger’s earth) in *(ONE I)
28 MENSWEAR MEN (husbands) SWEAR (use four letter words)
29 ESTATE E (Ecuador’s capital) STATE (say)
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Independent on Sunday 994 by Quixote (1 Mar 2009)
Posted by nmsindy on 5th March 2009
Solving time, 11 mins.
* = anagram
ACROSS
1 A M (O) S Book of Old Testament
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Financial Times 13,007 by Mudd
Posted by Pete Maclean on 5th March 2009
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 21
I had trouble finishing the bottom-right corner of this puzzle and have a quibble about one of the clues there.
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