Comments on: Guardian 23,958/Paul - Online glitches, but brilliant wordplay.

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michod — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:00:34 +0000

A fine puzzle - middle of the road, palindrome, sleeping policeman, elder, tome all excellent clues. And no glitches or problems with clue lengths in the paper version. The only one I baulked at was ‘four hands’ for ‘bridge’ in 26 across. You might as well clue it as ‘52 cards’ or ‘four directions’!

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BenIngton — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:23:00 +0000

An excellent puzzle - what a way to start after the Christmas break!

Re 5a, I think this is a reference to the old adage “There’s no time like the present”

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ilancaron — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:22:58 +0000

not just you — i had the double character problem as well. STRIP CLUB is another misleading clue length instance. HERO was v. hard to see unless you wrote it out. which i didn’t - thanks for the resolution.

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linxit — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:22:02 +0000

5 across - it’s just from the saying “There’s no time like the present”. I also had the problem when doing it online of the double letters, but it only started happening when I was half way through the puzzle. I would also count 7dn as (5,4), so that makes four two-word answers given as one word. Made things very difficult.