Comments on: Independent 6287/Scorpion - Elusively hard http://fifteensquared.net/2006/12/16/independent-6287scorpion-elusively-hard/ Never knowingly undersolved. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: <![CDATA[nmsindy]]> http://fifteensquared.net/2006/12/16/independent-6287scorpion-elusively-hard/#comment-438 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:04:25 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=126#comment-438 This was really tough but very satisfying when solved - solving time 88 mins. Thanks, Eimi, for explaining Nairobi which was the one I did not fully understand. Also thanks, Neildubya, for explaining the reversal in MUESLI which I missed - I thought it was an indirect anagram which would have been highly unusual in something like the Listener, not to mention the daily cryptic. Re Orinico, this was to me just a river, though the wordplay was friendly - Google elucidated it for me. Notice no winners' names were given in my edition of the paper to-day - I take it this is due to a glitch in the office rather than that no one sent in a correct solution... This was really tough but very satisfying when solved - solving time 88 mins. Thanks, Eimi, for explaining Nairobi which was the one I did not fully understand. Also thanks, Neildubya, for explaining the reversal in MUESLI which I missed - I thought it was an indirect anagram which would have been highly unusual in something like the Listener, not to mention the daily cryptic. Re Orinico, this was to me just a river, though the wordplay was friendly - Google elucidated it for me.

Notice no winners’ names were given in my edition of the paper to-day - I take it this is due to a glitch in the office rather than that no one sent in a correct solution…

]]> By: <![CDATA[eimi]]> http://fifteensquared.net/2006/12/16/independent-6287scorpion-elusively-hard/#comment-437 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:38:36 +0000 http://fifteensquared.net/?p=126#comment-437 I think you're right - Scorpion is a master of disguise, which can make his clues hard to parse. His definitions are also very cryptic sometimes, as in 'student in trunks'. Some of the clues are on the borderline of fairness - I have asked for several to be reworked in the past, others I've allowed through because I allow more leeway for the Saturday puzzles as they are prize puzzles. A case in point is Nairobi, where 'extra' indicates that IN is reversed 'outside' A1 ROB. I particularly like 11 Across and 1 Down in this puzzle. I think you’re right - Scorpion is a master of disguise, which can make his clues hard to parse. His definitions are also very cryptic sometimes, as in ’student in trunks’. Some of the clues are on the borderline of fairness - I have asked for several to be reworked in the past, others I’ve allowed through because I allow more leeway for the Saturday puzzles as they are prize puzzles. A case in point is Nairobi, where ‘extra’ indicates that IN is reversed ‘outside’ A1 ROB.

I particularly like 11 Across and 1 Down in this puzzle.

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