Comments on: Azed 2067 / 15 January 2012 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/22/azed-2067-15-january-2012/ Never knowingly undersolved. Sun, 26 May 2013 07:51:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/22/azed-2067-15-january-2012/#comment-180659 RCWhiting Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:26:46 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=39433#comment-180659 Thanks all
Pretty routine (which includes being enjoyable!)
On the daily Guardian blogs a lot of posters attach great importance to surfaces; I am not one of them. Nevertheless I would say that Azed is definitely second division for surfaces.
I too tried ‘beat’ first.
I am a great fan of compound anagrams whoever invented them, nothing more satisfying than to see a solution appear, after the subtraction, as if by magic.

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/22/azed-2067-15-january-2012/#comment-180645 Pelham Barton Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:59:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=39433#comment-180645 Thanks Azed for the usual excellent puzzle and Duncan for the blog. I too had BEAT originally at 28dn.

sidey @1 re composite anagrams: See Azed Slip 146

http://www.andlit.org.uk/azed/slip.php?comp_no=146

for some history here – and I had a lot of enjoyable reading while hunting for this.

]]> By: sidey http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/01/22/azed-2067-15-january-2012/#comment-180641 sidey Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:46:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=39433#comment-180641 Thanks Duncan. I have a feeling Azed may have invented the composite anagram, or at least formalised the construction. They still cause me pain at times and your explanation of dashpot is far clearer than the example in one famous crossword manual.

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