Posted by Eileen on 11th June 2012
I’m a last-minute call-up from the bench today. Fortunately, not too challenging a blog to do in a hurry – not too many links to look up – but lots of nice clues to make this a pleasant solve, Thanks, Rufus!
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Posted by Pierre on 11th June 2012
It’s a Quiptic, Jim, but not as we know it … It might have just been a bad day at the office for me, but this was harder than many a Guardian cryptic that I’ve solved. Perhaps you’ll tell me otherwise.
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Posted by Pierre on 11th June 2012
It’s Monday, it’s Quixote, and it’s the usual mix of fine surfaces, clear definitions, and polished wordplay. Quixote was mentioned in nms’s recent survey as being one of the ‘easier’ Indy setters, and I did find this an accessible puzzle, presumably aimed at improving solvers. I’ve tried, therefore, to give full explanations, so if you polished this off in two shakes of a lamb’s tail, look away now … There was just one which I couldn’t quite see, and an unfortunate spelling mistake in one of the clues (in the online version, at least). And I have wittered on a bit as usual.
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Posted by beermagnet on 11th June 2012
There was no obvious Jubilee theme from Cyclops – I assume he compiled it whilst wearing his union jack bowtie.
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