Posted by Simon Harris on 4th August 2010
A pretty tough week, I found. Despite the auspicious puzzle number, I don’t see any Hastings-related material here, but then I will tend to miss whole themes entirely. 19ac remains unexplained.
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Posted by nmsindy on 4th August 2010
I found this very much on the easy side, with quite a few clues solved on first run through, solving time 16 mins. Excellent as always.
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Posted by Gaufrid on 4th August 2010
Not a lot of variety today with only a couple of clues that didn’t involve a charade and/or an anagram. If my memory serves me correctly this is something I have remarked upon previously when covering a puzzle by this setter. Perhaps it’s for this reason that I don’t seem to enjoy this setter’s puzzles in the FT as much as I do those by his alter ego, Scorpion, in the Indy.
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Posted by mhl on 4th August 2010
A fun puzzle with Paul’s trademark dodginess evident in a few clues. Annoyingly, I can’t quite see 24a….
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Posted by HolyGhost on 4th August 2010
Surely this is not the same Nimrod that was active on the Listener in the 1940′s?
This was pretty hard: clues in alphabetical order of answers, to be entered in the grid in jigsaw-fashion; any occurrence of the (different) letters in a to-be-discovered five-letter word overlooked in the wordplay. This five-letter thematic word leads to the completion of the otherwise unclued perimeter.
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