Comments on: Azed 2025/Carte Blanche http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/27/azed-2025carte-blanche/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/27/azed-2025carte-blanche/#comment-155696 Pelham Barton Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:54:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27793#comment-155696 This took me about double my usual maximum time for a Plain Azed and was well worth the effort. I got started on the grid with GOPIK and KOALA: if you assume that Azed would not give you two unchecked letters in a five-letter word, this means that GOPIK has to start in the top left-hand corner for KOALA to be the fourth down clue.

Lovely to see a word (REDUVIID) that allows “seven” in a clue to stand for the Roman numeral.

]]> By: Mick H http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/27/azed-2025carte-blanche/#comment-155244 Mick H Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:03:16 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27793#comment-155244 I enjoyed this more than the usual Azeds, but found it quite hard. Made me realise how much I normally rely on the generous cross-checking in his puzzles. Cold-solving that many of them is a real challenge.

]]> By: ilancaron http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/27/azed-2025carte-blanche/#comment-155049 ilancaron Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:46:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27793#comment-155049 Indeed — thanks Richard. I’m surprised I missed both of those (and of course El Cid). Oh well.

]]> By: Richard Heald http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/03/27/azed-2025carte-blanche/#comment-155043 Richard Heald Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:58:40 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=27793#comment-155043 The KOALA clue is a comp. anag. & lit.: POCKETEDANIMAL* = MENDEPICTKOALA.

Re INDOCID, ‘cid’ = chief, so ‘subcontinental leader’ suggests ‘Indo-cid’.

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