Posted by mhl on 6th July 2011
This is a rushed post, I’m afraid, so apologies for any errors. (Also I probably won’t be able to make corrections until much later.) I didn’t enjoy this much, partly due to circumstances (no access to a printer or a printed copy), and partly because of the style of the clues. Personally, I don’t like clues with verbose linking phrases, which there are many of here – I think they make the cryptic structure obvious and the clues seem less elegant. Update: As Berny points out below, there’s a good reason some of these might read a bit strangely, which I’ll mention in the next paragraph to avoid spoilers on the front page…
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Posted by flashling on 6th July 2011
So after a week off for good behaviour DAC returns with a crossword I found a little harder than usual. Probably just me though.
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Posted by Gaufrid on 6th July 2011
Monk is one of my favourite setters so I was very pleased to see him return to the FT and Indy after an eighteen month sabbatical. However, I don’t remember ever taking as long to complete an FT puzzle so this must have been very much at the harder end of the FT spectrum, but it was no less enjoyable for that.
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Posted by kenmac on 6th July 2011
The blog now arriving on platform 152 is the late running 1183 from kenmac.
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