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Quite a doozy this week but very enjoyable. Not necessary, of course, but I made copious use of the LEN, MID and VLOOKUP functions in Excel to count string lengths, pick out the Nth letter of the...
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A fun puzzle, I thought. The theme was unknown to me, so some Googling once the message from the omitted letters was clear was needed. Wikipedia to the rescue. A little more work was needed to get all...
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Much like last week, a perfectly fine puzzle with no end game to speak of; what to do was readily apparent so it was just a matter of identifying the nature of each clue. Still, many good clues that...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22190353
Good. Hopefully it is the guilty party....
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A fine puzzle though I would have liked more of an endgame. The method of entering the thematic answers is pretty easily deduced, and the revelation of the quote elicits an "ah" as you see how it...
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What a long preamble, but what a fun puzzle. It took me a few minutes to get what the down message was telling me, but the P D'd, all was clear. Thanks hedge-sparrow.
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A nice puzzle up until the very last step which I felt was borderline unfair. The gridfill was straightforward as was identifying the group. But, the Chambers entry for the group identifies two...
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So tired of seeing this theme again and again and again............ 1a revealed quickly, so I figured this would be a piece of cake, and the top was indeed quick; got bogged down in the bottom half...
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Not nearly as difficult as in recent weeks but very enjoyable - I may have laughed out loud when the penny dropped. Merci M. Kea.
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A fine puzzle which elicited a gruckle (groan + chuckle) at the final PDM. The method of entry for the 24 was fairly easily discovered and a lucky/inspired Google search led right to 11d and the...
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What if he had lived? Would he be touring on the oldies circuit? Would he have been the 6th Traveling Wilbury? Would he have been a "guest artist" on the Stones current tour? One can only...
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I have a Dell laptop running Windows 7, and a Linksys router for wireless access. Everything was fine until about a week ago (by which I mean the laptop would detect the wireless signal and connect to...
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I found it very difficult to get a toehold into this one, given the mix of clue types. I think I had one grid entry after 15 minutes. But, plugging away finally paid off once the theme was revealed. A...
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Fun puzzle. Very clever to find 5 pairs of words that provide the thematic material in such an appropriate way. Huzzah for Kcit! Heading towards 102 today, so it's cooling off some ;( Still no rain in...
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Passed away today at 71.
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Hello N&Cers, took a long time for the PDM on this one, but well worth the wait, I thought. A very nice twist to the 12 clues. Thanks for the workout, Nudd.
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Quite a challenging puzzle this week, between extra letters, clashes and redundant definitions - and one completely normal clue. An inspired guess at the 11-letter across led me to the quote and lots...
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a.k.a., "Look at ME!!!!" says the setter. One of the harder EVs of late, certainly harder than this week's Listener. i was unsure of the last part of the preamble till the very end, but sure...
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A blues great.
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