Posted by duncanshiell on 19th June 2013
With a Dac puzzle, bloggers tend to be repetitive in their praise for the smoothness of the surfaces of the clues. It’s very difficult not to be and this week the puzzle illustrate some more excellent examples of clue writing.
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Posted by John on 18th June 2013
A good, slightly tough but not very, workout from Radian today. Some of the clues (especially 18ac) are excellent.
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Posted by flashling on 17th June 2013
I was slightly surprised to see Quixote when I got the paper this morning, I thought he did alternate weeks and he did last Monday, something special planned for next week perhaps?
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Posted by Ali on 16th June 2013
I haven’t blogged a Raich puzzle for a while, but always good to see him popping up on a Sunday. I liked this one a lot. Some tougher words took a while to crack, but everything was perfectly clued
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Posted by mc_rapper67 on 15th June 2013
An enjoyable prize puzzle from Monk – with an interesting twist, or two…
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on 14th June 2013
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Posted by duncanshiell on 13th June 2013
I don’t think I have blogged an eXternal puzzle before although I know he/she has produced puzzles for Independent on Sunday and the Inquisitor series in the Saturday Independent.
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Posted by John on 12th June 2013
As always a smooth operation from Dac. He has the ability to find the most straightforward parsing of a word, as witness the number of answers that are blogged here without comment. Which is not to say that he is always easy: it’s hard to compare solving online (as I did here) with solving the paper version, but it seemed that this was a bit tricky to get started on and then everything flowed very easily. Dac’s clues are never too devious. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bertandjoyce on 11th June 2013
Firstly – many thanks to Uncle Yap and mc_rapper for standing in for us while we were without internet access.
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Posted by NealH on 10th June 2013
The usual well-constructed puzzle from Quixote. There was nothing very controversial – maybe a couple of slightly unusual words in 21 and 4, but they were easy enough to work out from the clue.
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Posted by Simon Harris on 9th June 2013
Another good Sunday puzzle from Hypnos, with a range of difficulties, though nothing overly troublesome. 10ac and 11ac put up a bit of a fight for me, though in retrospect they seem perfectly reasonable. There’s one gap in my explanations at 4dn, where I don’t follow the reference to Helen Mirren, if indeed it is even her in question, or whether I’m being successfully misdirected.
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Posted by mc_rapper67 on 8th June 2013
A bonus blog for me – covering for Bert & Joyce, who are no doubt on some well-earned R&R… An interesting and enjoyable challenge from Punk this week.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 7th June 2013
For the first time in three weeks I get to blog a puzzle without a classical or modern music theme. This puzzle by Phi is simply a good example of what a national daily puzzle is generally all about.
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Posted by John on 6th June 2013
When I saw who was the setter my fear was that I was going to have to bite my tongue and go along with some of Donk’s less Ximenean ways, but so far as I can see it is all very sound and the reader of this blog is not going to get any of the traditionalist grumbles that might have been expected.
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Posted by Uncle Yap on 5th June 2013
Bertandjoyce are away & without internet access; so I am subbing in this midweek spot. Dac, as usual, served up a varied potpourri of very fair clues. I particularly like his efforts to make the surface of so many clues smooth and apt in the context … indeed a workman proud of his craftsmanship.
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