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i know some of you lot were fans of Araucaria who died a year ago today.
http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26427

Hi Trevor
That was the point of my "Heads up" thread, though I agree that including "Araucaria" in the title should grab more attention.

http://www.crosswordsolver.org/forum/462727/heads-up-for-occasional-guardian-solvers?thread-page=

not been around today Chris, should have checked. still, no harm done. i haven't done it yet.

Thank you Trevor, I was a great fan as im sure you know, and would otherwise of missed this. (also to chrisE) Trust you are well Fenton. (and you to Chris)

Cheers

Nice to hear from you again, imagcq - how are you keeping? Do you have a weatherproof house yet?

hi imagcq, i thought it was a bit patchy cluewise, you know how it works, the ones i can't understand are crap.
i couldn't parse 25a but got the explanation from that 'fifteen squared' site. A bit iffy?
23d had me completely baffled and i had the wrong last letter for a while.
i'll stop whingeing (10a was an odd one) was a very welcome surprise to see his name.
i'm off to chase some tail in the park.

I liked 10a, in fact, and 27a was special.

i thought 10a was great along with many of the others.

A welcome surprise when I saw the setter's name.
My favourite was 11a.

I've just had to visit 15squared to see why some of my answers were correct!

Lovely to see the Rev back again. I didn't pick up a paper till about 9pm that day, and then only bought the Grauniad because the shop was out of 'i's. I couldn't believe it when I turned to the back and saw the magic name.