Comments on: Azed 2056 – 23 October 2011 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/30/azed-2056-23-october-2011/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 19 May 2013 18:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bob Sharkey http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/30/azed-2056-23-october-2011/#comment-173055 Bob Sharkey Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:08:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36004#comment-173055 I hope that other regulars (and punters) will note and applaud Azed’s ‘Oxbridge double’. He had the first leg ‘up’ in Azed 2049 at 9 down –

Where punters enjoy themselves? Emergency if credit is denied (4) ISIS

The winning leg is at 25 down in this puzzle.

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/30/azed-2056-23-october-2011/#comment-173043 Pelham Barton Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:20:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36004#comment-173043 Thanks Azed for another enjoyable crossword and Duncan for the blog.

29ac: In my view, it is the unsignalled requirement to split a clue word that is unfair. Here Azed has given us some sort of signal – I rather like Bob’s suggestion (@1) that this a private joke. It is also worthy of note that this answer is 11/13 cross-checked.

]]> By: Bob Sharkey http://www.fifteensquared.net/2011/10/30/azed-2056-23-october-2011/#comment-173037 Bob Sharkey Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:42:34 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=36004#comment-173037 Many thanks for the review, Duncan. Very thorough, as expected from you. I failed to notice the subsidiary in ‘Spithead’ at 29 across despite knowing that Azed would not leave it resting on just a cryptic allusion. The French term ‘coco-de-mer’, given as the definition in Chambers, is the teaser. I strongly suspect that this clue is a private joke at the expense of a regular solver.

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