Posted by Simon Harris on 17th October 2009
This is still one of my perhaps two favourite crosswords, the other being Inquisitor, also in the Independent the day before. Beelzebub seems to hit the perfect balance between challenging and eminently solvable, with the clueing never being less than flawless.
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Posted by Dave Hennings on 17th October 2009
I didn’t know whether to expect a tricky puzzle from MynoT, or an easy one. He seems to be a setter who can produce varying levels of difficulty but, this being EV, I’ll assume for the time being it’s on the easy side … so I can relax a bit.
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Posted by rightback on 17th October 2009
Solving time: 19 mins
I found this the hardest prize puzzle for some time (the recent Jumbo excepted) & really struggled to get started. The inclusion of three foreign language classical arias was one reason – I was familiar with just one of them – but I thought the clues in general were tough, especially in the top half.
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