Comments on: Independent 7513 by Math (Saturday 13 Nov)

By: Peter Biddlecombe

Peter Biddlecombe — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:50:42 +0000

Allan_C: no, the “the” isn’t necessary for the wordplay. But I’m used to inserting or deleting “the” and “a” when travelling from indication or def to a part-answer or answer, so didn’t notice it as an issue in this case.

By: scchua

scchua — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:29:12 +0000

Thanks Peter for the blog and Math for a nicely pitched (in other words, not too difficult) prize puzzle, made a bit more difficult by a number of “additional” words which no doubt helped the surface reading, but were also meant (I guess) to misdirect.

Favourites were: 29A SADDLES, 2D BIKER, and 7D ECLIPSES with “in the Times” a clever misdirection.

By: Allan_C

Allan_C — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 09:09:43 +0000

Nice one, not too taxing. Thanks Math, and Pete for the blog.

One minor point re 19d – “the” in front of “provinces” doesn’t seem really necessary. Just there to make the clue read better?

Thought SEMITONE was brilliant!