Posted by smiffy on 13th March 2009
Please excuse the drive-by blog, which I’ll aim to flesh out in a couple of hours. (I can sympathise with the clue at 8D today.) Not much to explain, although I suspect that some of the loose wordplay structures might peeve some.
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Posted by John on 13th March 2009
I found this unusually difficult — the two-word clues were a problem and one or two short answers are even now not totally clear. But apart from one or two quibbles, a typically pleasant crossword from Phi
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Posted by Simon Harris on 13th March 2009
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
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Posted by mhl on 13th March 2009
Quite a few nice clues in this fairly easy puzzle from Auster. (I’m a bit disappointed there’s are no Australian words or phrases this time, though. 
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Posted by neildubya on 13th March 2009
Scorpion has a reputation as one of the tougher Indie setters but I found this pretty easy. Good fun to solve too, which is the most important thing after all. Just two queries – 3d and 17d. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by duncanshiell on 13th March 2009
We were told that the initial letters of extra words in twenty-two (of forty-seven) clues would spell out the source of a quotation explaining what happens to seven answers. These initial letters would also give us the author of the quote. We were told further that all but one of the twenty-two words came from the source, except one, a musically relevant proper noun.
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Posted by Colin Blackburn on 13th March 2009
I might be being unduly unfair but I was dissatisfied with this puzzle overall. On the plus side the idea was neat and simple and many of the clues were good and relatively easy. But enumerations were wrong in a couple of places, at least according to Chambers which was recommended for the theme words and so I would have though was the reference for the clue answers. One entry was a not a word and a couple of other clues were just unsatisfactory.
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