Comments on: Guardian 25,601 / Brummie http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: PeeDee http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188865 PeeDee Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:09:08 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188865 Thank you Eileen. I thought exactly the same about not needing the subsidiaries. It felt more like a concise crossword. I found myself just hunting words that looked like definitions then writing in the answers. I thought Chinese Takeaway felt a bit iffy too, it was almost there but just needed a little refinement.

I liked the + x – / though. Nice and subtle.

]]> By: William http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188843 William Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:04:42 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188843 Bravo smokeythebandit @19! Missed it.

]]> By: nametab http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188840 nametab Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:31:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188840 Ok, but I realised the point well enough. Perhaps I see it as overdone. I would have liked a question mark.

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188838 RCWhiting Wed, 04 Apr 2012 21:05:15 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188838 Stewart/Steward is the point.

]]> By: nametab http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188836 nametab Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:36:51 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188836 Sometimes I’m not on Brummie’s wavelength, but found this one pretty easy, except for 2d.
Rod Stewart, not ‘Steward’, by the way.
Yes Paul B – nice grid.
North Pole (ie ‘lead’) fits the parsing at 8d, but not quite the definition.

]]> By: Eileen http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188833 Eileen Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:12:11 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188833 Hi Derek

I didn’t follow the link beyond the first paragraph, which confirmed that I’d never heard that name – honestly! [I do recognise [most of] the song titles, of course.]

]]> By: Derek Lazenby http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188825 Derek Lazenby Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:14:44 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188825 Struggled but got there.

Eileen, I hope you followed the link @1 and looked at the discography section. You really sure you never heard of him?

]]> By: RCWhiting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188815 RCWhiting Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:14:57 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188815 Thanks all
Rather disppointing for a Brummie.
If a setter builds a reputation for a tough challenge they doubly let us down when they produce a softie.
I was delayed shortly by 2d because I misidentified the definition.

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188812 Paul B Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:39:07 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188812 I don’t get the CHINESE TAKE-AWAY one either, to be honest! Too clever for me. Meal in Shanghai? would have been my humble, and most likely plagiarised effort.

]]> By: Paul B http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/04/04/guardian-25601-brummie/#comment-188811 Paul B Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:36:19 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=42562#comment-188811 Nice grid though, eh?

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