Comments on: AZED No. 2,052 Plain http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/02/azed-no-2052-plain/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bob Sharkey http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/02/azed-no-2052-plain/#comment-171042 Bob Sharkey Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:57:18 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34758#comment-171042 Re SPORE in Chambers, see entry for SPOOR, which doesn’t have the SPORE variant. So Azed’s mistake, if any, is not to mention OED as an authority.

]]> By: AJK http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/02/azed-no-2052-plain/#comment-171034 AJK Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:14:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34758#comment-171034 He’s used Spore for Track recently I think. Agree, very tough.

]]> By: sidey http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/02/azed-no-2052-plain/#comment-171026 sidey Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:34:01 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34758#comment-171026 Some difficult stuff here. TAORMINA is even more obscure than Pluckley!

Spore is in the OED, which is no real excuse…

Still good fun though.

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/02/azed-no-2052-plain/#comment-171025 Pelham Barton Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:10:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=34758#comment-171025 Thanks Azed for the puzzle and Nick for the blog. Favourite clue 10dn for the use of “guy”.

This took me twice as long as any recent Azed had taken. I was doing all right and had only four left within a reasonable time, but got stuck at 9ac. I had -WI— and the construction was obvious, but my eye kept failing to spot swipey on repeated scans of page 1574 of Chambers.

21ac: The definition of power user in Chambers is near enough to “computer whizz” for me.

4dn: I too cannot find spore = track.

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