Comments on: AZED No. 2,058 Plain ‘Competition Puzzle’

By: Erebus

Erebus — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:34:28 +0000

Does anyone else think that the 1st prize winning clue to ROBUST, namely “Tough as old boots from crate in cobblers” (bus in rot), should have an apostrophe in cobblers for it to read correctly in the plain reading? That would then render the cryptic indication unsound, wouldn’t it?

By: RCWhiting

RCWhiting — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:28:16 +0000

Thanks all
Another very enjoyable exercise.
I never thought I would say this about an AZED but it was made slightly too straightforward by two long solutions (1d, 9d) which I solved very quickly.

By: The Trafites

The Trafites — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:34:33 +0000

Thanks, corrected.

Nick

By: Pelham Barton

Pelham Barton — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 07:04:49 +0000

Thanks Azed for the usual excellent puzzle and Nick fot the blog. Favourite clue the wonderfully apt 9dn.

A couple of minor typos in the blog:

16ac: MO + REST<
24ac: P in (A SIRE), or it could be A + (P in SIRE)