Comments on: Enigmatic Variations No.1027 – Checkmate by Shark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/28/enigmatic-variations-no-1027-checkmate-by-shark/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:42:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: slaney http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/28/enigmatic-variations-no-1027-checkmate-by-shark/#comment-199496 slaney Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:16:04 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47110#comment-199496 Thanks for the blog Mister Sting, and thanks to Shark, both for an excellent crossword and the clarification about Clov, which did indeed cause a fair amount of discussion!

]]> By: Mister Sting http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/28/enigmatic-variations-no-1027-checkmate-by-shark/#comment-199459 Mister Sting Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:58:41 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47110#comment-199459 Ah. I was caught out there I’m afraid.
The preamble does indeed say two words. I was fooled by reading that Nagg and Nell live in separate (although adjacent) dustbins.

]]> By: Shark http://www.fifteensquared.net/2012/07/28/enigmatic-variations-no-1027-checkmate-by-shark/#comment-199440 Shark Mon, 30 Jul 2012 19:33:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=47110#comment-199440 Many thanks Mister Sting for an impressive breakdown of the clues. It was intended to be a light-hearted representation of a play that I have never come across before, but got the theme from the modern version of Brewers.

To highlight a couple of red herrings and an extra point:

The preamble specified two words so it is “a dustin” rather than dustbins, thereby keeping it symmetrical and looking like a dustbin

Also there was Clov upside down (in volcano) and may have tricked some solvers (sadly intended). Of course he wasnt standing on his head and was just standing upright meaning the Clov in uncloven was the correct one.

Stumps had a double meaning in that it means the end of play = endgame, and also are legs, which Nagg and Nell did not have

Shark

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