Comments on: Independent on Sunday 1126: Hypnos http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/18/independent-on-sunday-1126-hypnos/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sat, 25 May 2013 04:22:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/18/independent-on-sunday-1126-hypnos/#comment-169938 nmsindy Sun, 18 Sep 2011 17:12:45 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34392#comment-169938 Thanks, jetdoc, for the blog and Hypnos for the puzzle which was very enjoyable. I found it a mixture of some quite easy clues and some extremely tricky ones. Among the latter for me were GOOD-LOOKER (my favourite clue), ESCAPEES and COERCION.

]]> By: jetdoc http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/18/independent-on-sunday-1126-hypnos/#comment-169935 jetdoc Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:29:12 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34392#comment-169935 This seemed to me to be spot-on in terms of difficulty for an IoS — all wordplay perfectly sound, but with a few twists in the surface reading to deceive.

]]> By: Wanderer http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/18/independent-on-sunday-1126-hypnos/#comment-169933 Wanderer Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:42:10 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34392#comment-169933 I agree that this was a pleasant solve but unlike you I found it really quite challenging — certainly more so than we have become used to on a Sunday. Some of the clues (BURY THE HATCHET, SCANDALMONGER) had constructions which I found quite complicated, and I fell for plenty of misdirections. For example the use of traveller in the Palin clue made me think Michael, not Sarah; and the chef/oven references in the Dish clue had me looking for a culinary dish, rather than the one I eventually found. And one (to me) obscurity in EWE NECK which was nonetheless gettable from the clever wordplay.

Have others found that the IoS is switching to a policy of consistently tougher puzzles? If so I find it a very welcome development. This one hit the spot for me.

Many thanks jetdoc and Hypnos.

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