Posted by petebiddlecombe on 15th April 2009
At long last, our 5th social gathering for the writers and fans of this blog and the puzzles behind it. Well actually “these blogs” – it’s equally open to folk from fifteensquared, Big Dave’s Telegraph blog, Tony Sever’s RTC3 and anyone else interested.
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Posted by Ciaran McNulty on 15th April 2009
It’s fun to tackle Araucaria on a wednesday, he’s a bit less vicious but still as inventive as ever. I particularly enjoyed the pair of tricky anagrams in 5ac/7dn, the triply-defined 11ac, and 1dn just because I’m a fan of the books.
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Posted by Gaufrid on 15th April 2009
A themed Cinephile for our entertainment today in which we were told that BP had the same meaning throughout. Once the theme had been determined (in my case from solving 7,8) the remaining clues became a lot easier than they appeared on the first read through. The theme was confirmed by 2d. A most enjoyable start to the day.
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Across
1 AMBUSH AM BUSH (he’s ex-president)
4 INTIFADA AD (publicity) A FIT (an appropriate) NI (Ulster) reversed
9 KIDNEY KID (child) NEY (soldier) – Michel Ney, Marshal of France
10 SCOTLAND COT (little house) in SLAND[er] (a lot of bad-mouthing)
12 APPARENT A (first) PP (two pages) AREN’T (seem not to be)
13 PRIMAL RIM (edge) in PAL (friend)
15,20 DARTMOOR ROOM (accommodation) TRAD (traditional) reversed
16 BEWITCHING WIT (intelligence) CHIN (BP) in BEG (ask)
19 WASTED AWAY WAS TED AWAY
23 CLOUDY C (cold) LOUD (noisy) [part]Y
25 FREE HAND FREE (without charge) HAND (BP)
27 HUGUENOT U (university) in HUGE (large) NOT
28 LIVERY dd
29 MINORITY dd
30 CHEEKS dd
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Posted by Simon Harris on 15th April 2009
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition.
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