Posted by Admin on 5th August 2012
….. and Dean Meyer’s 50th birthday bash. Dean has sent the following information about these two events which I post verbatim:
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Posted by Simon Harris on 5th August 2012
A little while since I’ve blogged a Sunday Glow-worm, I think, so a nice change for me. I left this one a bit late in the week, so it was convenient that it wasn’t too onerous, and I seemed to sail through it fairly swiftly.
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Posted by Simon Harris on 5th August 2012
A fair bit tougher than the previous Beelzebub I blogged, and it was quite a wait before the first answer slotted in. There’s quite a lot of anagrammatic material here, which I don’t mind. One question mark from me at 27ac, where I’m fairly sure the answer is correct, but cannot see the wordplay.
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Posted by The Trafites on 5th August 2012
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Posted by bridgesong on 5th August 2012
Unlike most recent puzzles in this series, there were no special instructions. It was just a tough cryptic (and here’s a link to the pdf of the puzzle), but made more difficult by what appears to have been an unusual error (which was subsequently corrected by the Guardian crossword editor, after I had pointed it out). Some of the clues which comprised a phrase had the word “words” following the enumeration. There appeared to be no reason for this, nor was there any connection that I could see between the answers. There was a mini-theme and the usual wide range of literary references. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by John on 5th August 2012
A fairly typical Azed plain; nothing much to say, simply sound clueing of course and one or two rather thin surfaces but many good ones.
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