Comments on: Azed 2014: Competition puzzle http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/09/azed-2014-competition-puzzle/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 01:10:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: jetdoc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/09/azed-2014-competition-puzzle/#comment-146220 jetdoc Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:46:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24938#comment-146220 I don’t have a problem with ‘fratches’, given that it’s a regular plural.

]]> By: bridgesong http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/09/azed-2014-competition-puzzle/#comment-146172 bridgesong Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:10:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24938#comment-146172 Fratch may be a good word, but what do you think of fratches? The OED gives no example of a plural form, although if there is one, I suppose there would be no other way of spelling it.

]]> By: The Trafites http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/09/azed-2014-competition-puzzle/#comment-146082 The Trafites Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:23:47 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24938#comment-146082 Ref. 35ac – although the word play can only be ‘valets’, I took ages to convince myself ‘Bunter etc.’ leads to a plural solution.

Nick

]]> By: jetdoc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/09/azed-2014-competition-puzzle/#comment-146080 jetdoc Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:09:24 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24938#comment-146080 Thanks, Grandpuzzler — typo corrected.

]]> By: grandpuzzler http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/01/09/azed-2014-competition-puzzle/#comment-146062 grandpuzzler Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:46:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=24938#comment-146062 Thanks,jetdoc, for your excellent blog. I needed your help to understand 1D. I believe there is an inadvertent typo in your explanation of 34A.

Cheers…

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