Posted by John on 19th May 2010
As usual, an immaculate little crossword from Dac, with elegant well-constructed clues. The explanation of one of the answers defeats me, but it will almost certainly be immediately made clear. (As I did the blog I overcame my problems. So blindingly obvious in fact that I’m not even going to let on which one it was.) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by petebiddlecombe on 19th May 2010
Solving time: about 1 hour
In this puzzle, which “depicts an historic event”, the gimmick is that “When the clue answers have been entered, some squares will be empty. In the final grid (in which all entries are real words) a different equal number of squares will be empty. Solvers must highlight what was dispatched and by what (12 squares in all)”.
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Posted by manehi on 19th May 2010
The first Bonxie I’ve blogged is also the first time I’ve seen 3dn, 18dn or 22ac. Everything else was mostly straightforward, but I did have to guess and google 3 and 22 in the end. Lots of very nice surface cluing.
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