Posted by Simon Harris on 5th February 2012
This was certainly the most challenging Beelzebub I’ve faced in a long while. I managed one entry (27ac) during the first sitting, and a disheartening zero entries during the second.
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Posted by jetdoc on 5th February 2012
Oops, I hit ‘Publish’ before rescheduling this for midnight! I hope no one is discombobulated by the earliness.
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Posted by The Trafites on 5th February 2012
Nick: A toughy from Azed this week, which I give 8/10 on the Azedian hardness scale.
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Posted by The Trafites on 5th February 2012
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Posted by jetdoc on 5th February 2012
A pretty straightforward puzzle, not presenting too much in the way of challenges. Sound, though, and with some nice wordplay (e.g. 12a, 16d). Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by bridgesong on 5th February 2012
Lavatch is a setter whose puzzles (in this series anyway) always seem to involve having to change the word before entry in the grid. This time the down clues all included a name which had to be “dropped”, i.e. extracted and put at the end of the rest of the letters in the clue. Across clues were normal. For the down clues I have therefore shown first the actual grid entry, then the word before modification. It should be obvious in each case what the name was.
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