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By: pommers
Liked this one a lot. At least I was vaguely familiar with the theme which helped a bit Too many good clues to pick a favourite but perhaps 8d as it opens up the puzzle. Thanks for the fun Hieroglyph,...
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Got 8d early which helped the solve. Thanks Hieroglyph; I particularly liked 11a and 16d. Not sure about ‘retreats’ in 5d if I have parsed it properly.
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This appears to be a Hieroglyph I haven’t seen before – I think he’s gone off me! Didn’t take long to solve once I got 8d but very enjoyable over a lunchtime sarnie. Thanks to Hieroglyph and to...
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By: Windsurfer23
Thanks crypticsue, I realised that but thought as it was a down clue it should have a reversal down indicator e.g. rising, upward etc (?)
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You could retreat in a upwards direction if you were escaping from a flooding pothole!
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You are right in that there are certain indicators, like the ones you picked, that only work in a down clue. Equally, some only work in across clues, going west, left to right etc. But there are a lot...
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By: Kath
I did this one largely through a bit of luck and quite a lot of guessing which meant that I needed the hints to explain several. I got the 8d author quickly and the 1/2/23/19 was the first thing I saw...
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By: pommers
Don’t worry Kath, I put the answer in for 3d very quickly after getting a couple of checkers but it took me ages to parse it! And I’m a chemist At least Jenson won today
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By: Hieroglyph
Many thanks for your comments and to Prolixic for the review. A mea culpa is in order for that rogue ‘C’! Hope to be back anon, and who knows, another alphabetical some time soon.
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