http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/26/cyclops-452/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 15:03:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/26/cyclops-452/#comment-170775 DrJ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:41:53 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34753#comment-170775 I didn’t get 31a. either, even after reading the solution. I didn’t know ‘tight’ as meaning drunk, but: . Not the best clue.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/26/cyclops-452/#comment-170680 jetdoc Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:32:31 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34753#comment-170680 … or even the singular!

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/26/cyclops-452/#comment-170679 jetdoc Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:32:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34753#comment-170679 I don’t really find it acceptable to mess around with parts of speech like that — ‘tight’ (adj) is not the singluar of ‘tights’.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/26/cyclops-452/#comment-170678 Jon88 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:15:55 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34753#comment-170678 31a: Second puzzle in a row containing this altered-definition device. I’m not loving it, but as long as it doesn’t spread beyond Cyclops’s ambit, I’ll cope.

]]> http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/09/26/cyclops-452/#comment-170621 pajodr Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:54:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34753#comment-170621 re: 31 across. I think you’ve explained it as intended. Bladdered is a term meaning quite drunk. Tight is also a term meaning drunk. So ‘quite tight’ is the same as bladdered; removing ‘s’ from tights (i.e. singular), then read it as an adjective instead of a noun.

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