Comments on: Azed 2071 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/19/azed-2071/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 21 May 2013 18:50:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/19/azed-2071/#comment-183157 RCWhiting Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:47:33 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40708#comment-183157 So insignificant that I missed John’s reference to it, sorry.

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/19/azed-2071/#comment-183154 RCWhiting Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:26:26 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40708#comment-183154 Thanks all
Very enjoyable, as ever.
I did try ‘neddy’until I got ‘doornail’; Tomnoddy was new to me.

Of no significance, but there was a numbering error at 27.

]]> By: Pelham Barton http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/19/azed-2071/#comment-183137 Pelham Barton Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:22:21 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40708#comment-183137 Thanks Azed for the crossword and John for the blog. Solving time for me was back at the lower end of the range, but I did not stop to work out the parsing of 25ac so thanks John for that – obviously right once you have explained it.

19ac: As you say John, “chump” and “old Jack” are both sufficient definitions for NODDY. I took the start of the clue as simply an indication that the answer could be preceded by one of CHRIS or TOM – the latter in this case. Presumably Azed thought that this was a somewhat weak secondary indicatio, so he made it a tertiary indication by giving two definitions.

5dn: The pdf version I have says “quality of many a fine tune” which makes more sense for CATCHINESS than the version you have quoted.

]]> By: Rishi http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/19/azed-2071/#comment-183122 Rishi Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:12:14 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40708#comment-183122 Re 7a: Salman BUTT is a former cricket captain from Pakistan. I pondered a little about ‘confined’ because this is not a ‘hidden’ (or ‘telescopic’) clue. Then I remembered that this player was caught in a match-fixing scandal; subsequently he was convicted and jailed. Hence ‘confined’, I think.

If this reading is correct, I am not sure if it is worth dragging in a living person like this.

]]> By: John http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/19/azed-2071/#comment-183121 John Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:04:09 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40708#comment-183121 Yes thanks Matthew of course that’s it. By doing The Times, which doesn’t mention living people, every day I get out of the habit of looking for them when I do Azed.

]]> By: Matthew http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/02/19/azed-2071/#comment-183120 Matthew Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:55:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=40708#comment-183120 Thanks for the blog, John.

I think 7a is reffering to Salman Butt, who was the captain of the Pakistan cricket team and is now imprisoned after the spot-fixing scandal.

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