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Day: 15 May 2008

Independent 6732 / Tees Contemporary fun

Thu May 15, 2008 at 1:03 pm by tilsit

Solving time: 28 mins A jolly little puzzle from Tees with lots of contemporary references. I suppose I still think in old-fashioned crosswordese, but the Indy has certainly brought puzzles into the 21st … Read more >>

Categories Independent 11 Comments

Independent on Sunday 952 by Quixote (11 May 2008)

Thu May 15, 2008 at 10:00 am by nmsindy

I found this much tougher than usual from Quixote. Solving time, 43 mins. * = anagram < = reversed ACROSS 1 ME A LIE Very inventive. 5 CRACK UP Double definition 9 STEW … Read more >>

Categories Independent

Financial Times 12,768 – Flimsy

Thu May 15, 2008 at 8:22 amThu May 15, 2008 at 7:50 am by Uncle Yap

This is my maiden post and I will adopt the conventional symbols * = anagram “” = homophone cd = cryptic definition dd = double definition ha = hidden answer rha = reversed … Read more >>

Categories FT 4 Comments

Financial Times 12,758 by Cinephile — Ice malt? (7, 5)

Mon March 16, 2009 at 12:47 pmThu May 15, 2008 at 4:41 am by Pete Maclean

I found this puzzle rather difficult even after catching on to the theme, climate change. I got 18A wrong and did not find the solution to 17D. A few clues that struck me … Read more >>

Categories FT 8 Comments

Guardian 24389/Gordius – competing with Rufus?

Thu May 15, 2008 at 5:47 pmThu May 15, 2008 at 2:38 am by ilancaron

NEW AGE TRAVELLER required some wiki-trawling — other than that, I find this puzzle to be a reasonable thing to do while listening to a talk about bid optimizations in internet advertising (which … Read more >>

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