Comments on: Azed 2083 http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/13/azed-2083/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:45:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: keriothe http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/13/azed-2083/#comment-193172 keriothe Sun, 13 May 2012 22:21:54 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=44070#comment-193172 Thanks for explaining 27dn – I had no idea!
My last in was 7dn. The only possibilities were ASBO and ASBM, and it took me forever to spot the composite anagram. Doh!

]]> By: Norman Hall http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/05/13/azed-2083/#comment-193145 Norman Hall Sun, 13 May 2012 09:39:00 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=44070#comment-193145 Perhaps we need a name for this type of clue. May I suggest an XtoY clue (with an XasY variation) – or is there a suitable name already?

I had 27d and 33ac as my last two to solve, and 27d had two unchecked letters -TO-.
I immediately thought it might be an XtoY clue and tried at first taking ‘him’ literally (which seemed unlikely), and then ‘him’ as Sandy, (which seemed much more likely). I didn’t need to go past the ‘S’, not because I knew what a Bandy was, but because a stob was a awl.

The surface reading may of course refer specifically to Sandy Lyle, who plays a ball game with clubs

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