Comments on: Enigmatic Variations No.1023 – Phoenix by Rasputin http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/30/enigmatic-variations-no-1023-phoenix-by-rasputin/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:56:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Artix http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/30/enigmatic-variations-no-1023-phoenix-by-rasputin/#comment-197282 Artix Wed, 04 Jul 2012 19:39:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45522#comment-197282 I bablypro will

]]> By: Chalicea http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/30/enigmatic-variations-no-1023-phoenix-by-rasputin/#comment-197005 Chalicea Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:04:02 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45522#comment-197005 Many thanks Mister Sting for that detailed, perceptive and encouraging analysis. I understand your feelings about all those errors and you can imagine the frustration and despair of the team when they appeared in the published copy. I promise none of them were in the final version we sent. We were relieved that it was still possible to solve a puzzle we had worked on for two years. (The word lengths were the Editor’s vestiges of a much earlier version that he had insisted we change!) I’m the scribe and my file on this puzzle is a centimetre thick. However, please don’t shout for stringing up of the Editor as we have a few more puzzles on the go!

Yes, msindy, those clues are parsed exactly as in our solution document. The Artix third of the Rasputin trio loves the cycling device – we had it in our recent Listener, and he will certainly insist on using it again.

]]> By: nmsindy http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/06/30/enigmatic-variations-no-1023-phoenix-by-rasputin/#comment-197003 nmsindy Sat, 30 Jun 2012 11:59:38 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=45522#comment-197003 I did not, unfortunately, have time to tackle this puzzle. Re 21A, ETAGES would fit the wordplay with judge = see (reversed). I’ve seen CYCLE used in puzzles meaning to move letters eg ABCDE could become DEABC.

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