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henconner

25th August 2025, 12:54
What a struggle! After two days I've still got a couple I can't solve, 16d and 23a. The Jumbo was much more enjoyable, even if it was tricky.
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norah (admin)

25th August 2025, 12:58
Kristi, I have removed the link in question. Don’t worry about it, these things happens.
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kristi

25th August 2025, 14:49
Thanks for fixing that for me, Norah.

About the jumbo puzzle itself - we still haven't finished, but finding it much more accessible than Enigmatist's prize!

Thought the Special instructions were strange, telling us to "Reveal all" on 30 August - is there perhaps a reason for this? Other Prize puzzles don't have this!
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redpete

26th August 2025, 19:11
Am I losing my marbles, is this only available online. I can't find it in the paper
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pamd

27th August 2025, 20:45
I buy the paper on a Saturday so got stuck into the Maskarade jumbo without even noticing that there was also an online-only Prize. Slow to start, but very enjoyable and finished it yesterday. There's a forum thread about it, but it doesn't follow same conventions as here: no FOI, LOI, COD, and a request to have every clue asked about to be written out in full.

So I only really started to look at the prize, having found it online and printed the pdf, last night. I solved precisely none before coming to the forum, have now got 25a and 18d from help here, and feel extre.ely stupid looking at all the other clues. Perhaps 2d includes "ra" as crag without its edges, but I think I'm going to give up. Haven't had such a near-total fail on a Prize for years: I usually get it finished eventually, sometimes by mid-week. Will look at the answer on 30 Aug, and try to work out what I've been missing. Perhaps I used up my week's ration of solving ability on the jumbo!

And I sent an email grumbling about the tiny font used for the numbers in the not-very-jumbo grid.
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redpete

28th August 2025, 15:08
PamD
The special instructions apply to the Jumbo and not the Prize unless I have I misunderstood your post.

I think it's unfair to have the prize crossword online only as it limits entries to those with a computer an printer/fax
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redpete

28th August 2025, 15:35
My apologies PamD, I did misunderstand your post!
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jack aubrey

28th August 2025, 17:09
11a seems remarkably prescient in view of the result against Grimsby!
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