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Prize Puzzle – November 2014

Monthly Prize Puzzle No 30 (November 2014)

Missing Link by Prolixic

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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?

The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books published by Hamlyn.

Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.

 A review will follow after the closing date (15th November 2014).

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Prize Puzzle – October 2014

Monthly Prize Puzzle No 29 (October 2014) by Radler

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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?

The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books published by Hamlyn.

Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.

 A review will follow after the closing date (18th October 2014).

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MPP 028 – Review

Monthly Prize Puzzle – 028

September 2014

Latitude by Alchemi

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Congratulations to this month’s winner – A. Weir – who correctly gave Harare (17:51 S) as being nearest to “eighteen degrees S” – the parallel of latitude found in across rows four and 12 of the crossword.

I don’t know whether they used Google to find out which of the places named in the solutions was on this parallel of latitude, but I used an atlas when I test-solved the crossword, which led to our setter changing the wording of the question so that entrants would know that Harare was the answer needed to win the Chambers XWD – A Dictionary of Crossword Abbreviations. Incorrect entries included Port-au-Prince (18:32 N)(my original answer) , Rio de Janeiro (22:54 S) and Mogadishu (02:02 N)

 

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Prize Puzzle – September 2014

Monthly Prize Puzzle No 28 (September 2014)

Latitude by Alchemi

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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?

The winner will receive a copy of Chambers XWD – A Dictionary of Crossword Abbreviations.

Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.

A review will follow after the closing date (20th September 2014).

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MPP 027 – Review

Monthly Prize Puzzle – 027

August 2014

A crossword by Prolixic

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Congratulations to Rob Ford who was the winner of this month’s prize puzzle and wins a copy of recently published 13th  edition of the  Chambers Dictionary.

The question to be answered by solving this month’s crossword  was “Eight consecutive answers form a pun on a famous song. Who had a hit with the original version?”

Starting at 9 Across – YEW PICTURE FIN THYME TWO LEAVED MEAL LOOSE HEEL can, if you say it correctly,  sound like the song title “You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille’ which was originally  a hit for  Kenny Rogers.

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Prize Puzzle – August 2014

Monthly Prize Puzzle No 27 (August 2014) by Prolixic

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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle?  The winner will receive a copy of Chambers Dictionary (13th Edition) kindly donated by the publisher.

Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.

A review will follow after the closing date (16th August 2014).

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MPP 026 – Review

Monthly Prize Puzzle – 026

July 2014

A crossword by Radler

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Congratulations to Keith Williams who was the winner of this month’s prize puzzle who wins a copy of Tim Moorey’s book.  Keith correctly deciphered the instructions set for the solver.  Eight of the across clues omitted a letter from the wordplay which, when added, gave the definition.  For these eight clues, the wordplay also gave a word in its own right linked to 16a.  Having found the solutions, the eight missing letters could be rearranged to give another example of a 16a.

The answer to 16a was flower.  Each of the eight clues produced the name of a river (flower) which, with the additional letters added gave the solution words.  Those eight letters could be rearranged to give the answer MARIGOLD (a botanical rather than a cryptic flower).

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Prize Puzzle – July 2014

Monthly Prize Puzzle No 26 (July 2014) by Radler

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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle? The winner will receive a copy of The Times ~ How to Crack Cryptic Crosswords kindly donated by its author, Tim Moorey.

Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.

A review will follow after the closing date (19th July 2014).

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MPP – 025 (Review)

Monthly Prize Puzzle – June 2014

A crossword by Alchemi

 

Reviewed by crypticsue

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Congratulations to David Whisstock whose name was drawn out of the electronic ‘hat’ by Mrs BD.   David solved the crossword, spotted the words ‘No Nobel’ in column 6 and then (if he was anything like me!) did a bit of investigoogling and found that the only author named in the grid who hadn’t been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature was Peter Ackroyd.

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Prize Puzzle – June 2014

Monthly Prize Puzzle No 25 (June 2014) by Alchemi

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Why not have a go at our latest Monthly Prize Puzzle? The winner will receive their choice of any of the Telegraph Crossword Books published by Hamlyn.

Please note that, due to punitive postal charges, while the competition is open to all, the prize is only available to UK solvers.

A review will follow after the closing date (21st June 2014).

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