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I guess the title gives the numeric specificity?
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Hey all. I never did quite figure out all the instructions in the preamble regarding "numerically specific meanings", but then again I didn't really need to. This was a challenger, I thought, simply because you need to work exclusively with the across clues until you have enough entered to make a stab at Q1 and get a sense of the patterns for entering the down clues. Once the light dawned re: the Q's, the normal down clues, and the pattern of the down clues, the rest was a breeze. I was probably not helped because I was trying to do it while watching the St Louis Cardinals clinch their (baseball) division championship. Woo hoo!!! (**crickets chirping**) Well, it's a big deal over here.
Lovely fall day here in Old St. Lou; an afternoon of yard work awaits! Woo hoo!!
Lovely fall day here in Old St. Lou; an afternoon of yard work awaits! Woo hoo!!
Yes, it was unusually helpful to tell us which letter to omit; normally expect to work that out for oneself! A glorious few days here too ... just right for getting the bikes out to pick a few more blackberries. The only cloud is the BBC's failure to rpovide a commentary from South Africa (the English sort of cricket).
I thought it was a very well constructed puzzle, though 27dn raised a chuckle, and an eyebrow. Had we not been told which letters to omit it would have been a cracker, well up to Listener standard. That's not a complaint, because it might have been harder than the editor wished, which is fair enough. Good fun, all the same
Hello all - only done about 6 of them and I should be in DC licking my wounds. DC fully stocked with goodies for you ringer.
Beloved senior dog died in 'hospital' in the night after a very quickly developing mammary gland tumour and diabetes which allowed a massive infection before she could be stabilised for the op. All happened within about 3 weeks. Junior dog as upset as us and now has to assume total responsibility, the spollie (springer spaniel who thinks she is a collie) just doesn't know what to do for the best. She is buried in the fields she loved so much along with her predecessors, I would take solace in hiding away with the EV except it just has to be Mr O who flummoxes me and reduces me to mental stuttering so will go and hack the beans down instead.
Beloved senior dog died in 'hospital' in the night after a very quickly developing mammary gland tumour and diabetes which allowed a massive infection before she could be stabilised for the op. All happened within about 3 weeks. Junior dog as upset as us and now has to assume total responsibility, the spollie (springer spaniel who thinks she is a collie) just doesn't know what to do for the best. She is buried in the fields she loved so much along with her predecessors, I would take solace in hiding away with the EV except it just has to be Mr O who flummoxes me and reduces me to mental stuttering so will go and hack the beans down instead.
Thought I'd say hi. Like Devadolly I find Oxymoron a trial. Have at least made a 'beginning' Novalis, mainly because I have most of the bottom half of the puzzle but very little at the top, but will try not to lose my head and press on for a while.
So sorry to hear about your senior dog, Devadolly. I experienced a similar thing recently with a 'middle-of-the-night cat crisis, which also ended in tears.
So sorry to hear about your senior dog, Devadolly. I experienced a similar thing recently with a 'middle-of-the-night cat crisis, which also ended in tears.
Daylight has dawned and now have a completed grid, although I too can't understand all the instructions re numerically specific. Am sorry to hear about your dog, devadolly. A colleague has also lost his dog this week - and it was only 7 years old. Won't need to sulk in DC but happy to keep you company. If you've got a few of the letters from 15/7 try putting them into the Universal Crossword Solver without any gaps. It really helped me.
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