http://fifteensquared.net/2006/12/04/guardian-23940rufus-%e2%80%93-it-all-came-together/ Never knowingly undersolved. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:23:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://fifteensquared.net/2006/12/04/guardian-23940rufus-%e2%80%93-it-all-came-together/#comment-263 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:39:17 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=100#comment-263 I have to disagree and say I always enjoy Rufus, though couldn't finished today's one (never heard of ALBS) - 11ac and 24 ac had me smiling for quite a while. I have to disagree and say I always enjoy Rufus, though couldn’t finished today’s one (never heard of ALBS) - 11ac and 24 ac had me smiling for quite a while.

]]> http://fifteensquared.net/2006/12/04/guardian-23940rufus-%e2%80%93-it-all-came-together/#comment-262 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 15:40:59 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=100#comment-262 All of his puzzles seem to contain a lot of cryptic definitions and they're always the last answers to go in whenever I solve one of his puzzles, along with those 4 letter answers where you have ?E?R filled in and which nearly drive you demented. Or maybe that's just me. All of his puzzles seem to contain a lot of cryptic definitions and they’re always the last answers to go in whenever I solve one of his puzzles, along with those 4 letter answers where you have ?E?R filled in and which nearly drive you demented. Or maybe that’s just me.

]]> http://fifteensquared.net/2006/12/04/guardian-23940rufus-%e2%80%93-it-all-came-together/#comment-261 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 14:48:55 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=100#comment-261 I don't think Rufus is as simple as he's cracked up to be, and he's certainly capable of some very clever clues, but this puzzle didn't do it for me. Too many barely cryptic definitions (eg RAMROD), double definitions using two fairly close meanings of the same word (eg 7 down REMIT, 14 ac REGISTER), and rather obvious combinations of phrase/literal meaning (the two phrases using ALL). I don’t think Rufus is as simple as he’s cracked up to be, and he’s certainly capable of some very clever clues, but this puzzle didn’t do it for me. Too many barely cryptic definitions (eg RAMROD), double definitions using two fairly close meanings of the same word (eg 7 down REMIT, 14 ac REGISTER), and rather obvious combinations of phrase/literal meaning (the two phrases using ALL).

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