Comments on: Inquisitor 1188: Firsts by Schadenfreude http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/10/inquisitor-1188-firsts-by-schadenfreude/ Never knowingly undersolved. Fri, 24 May 2013 05:53:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Hi of hihoba http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/10/inquisitor-1188-firsts-by-schadenfreude/#comment-167245 Hi of hihoba Fri, 12 Aug 2011 07:29:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32486#comment-167245 I agree with you, a super crossword. Like HG I found the “incorrect” word lengths my lead in to the theme. A strange birthday coincidence too. (Or is it, perhaps KB wrote the song as she knew she shared EB’s birthday!)
One extra point, worth a mention as we often get comments about it; when KATE BUSH was added in the yellow squares all the remaining entries were still real words!
I have some sympathy for Geoff Dennis’s point above, but I would say that the clue numbers could have been reallocated and the “real words” point added as and aid to filling in the unclued squares.

]]> By: Scarpia http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/10/inquisitor-1188-firsts-by-schadenfreude/#comment-167177 Scarpia Thu, 11 Aug 2011 09:20:43 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32486#comment-167177 Thanks HolyGhost and congratulations on finishing.
I got so far with it and got put off by the letter counts(especially in the top right hand corner).
I had ALIGHT for 6 down,which fitted the wordplay,definition and letter count(but not the crossing entries).

Should have got the theme as 30th July is my birthday,perhaps the lunchtime drinks dulled my brain!

]]> By: Geoff Dennis http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/08/10/inquisitor-1188-firsts-by-schadenfreude/#comment-167160 Geoff Dennis Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:31:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=32486#comment-167160 I enjoyed the puzzle a lot and I finished it but I have one small question: what was the setter up to in the top right corner? Why not just clue the one letter longer answers, AVESTA, EMI etc? Would that have made it too easy?

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