Financial Times 13,077 / Flimsy
Posted by shuchi on 15th May 2009
Good puzzle, tough in places with some word meanings new to me. Found 27A, 16D particularly interesting.
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Archive for May 15th, 2009
Guardian 24,700 / Arachne
Posted by Andrew on 15th May 2009
I found this mostly quite easy (especially in comparison to Arachne’s recent Monday puzzle), though with a few slight obscurities that I needed to check. Several very nice clues where the cryptic structure is well hidden.
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Enigmatic Variations 861 — Hellish Rate by Samuel
Posted by Colin Blackburn on 15th May 2009
Quite a tough EV from Samuel, certainly somewhat tougher, for me, than his Listener puzzles I have solved. Although I had plenty of extra letters and I could make out FRIEDRICH I still couldn’t fit in the other names because of their spelling. The penny dropped when I had OPUS and RAGTIME and the following dawned…
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Independent 7,045/Phi
Posted by Ali on 15th May 2009
Quick, early one from me today as I’m flying off to Denmark for the weekend. Phi back to his usual Friday slot after a couple of weeks elsewhere, and up to his usual excellent standard. Definitely at the easier end of the scale, though 22A took me a while to work out.
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