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David Stickley has been writing crosswords professionally since 1995. His cryptic puzzle, The Stickler, reached number 4786 before being axed in July 2013 due to cutbacks. David has been published in the NYT and the UK's FT.-
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Lloyd
RE your post this morning.
Notice is “ad” drain is “tire”. So notice dropped in drain is
TIRadE
Many thanks Arthur. David certainly comes up with some unlikely synonyms.
A friend described this as a vitriolic diatribe. As a child I often heard lectures (worse than the strap) but never a tirade.
I managed to finish this inside half an hour in more-or-less numerical order, only needing to double back to fill in a couple of answers. I guess that means I found it easy, but that could just as easily come down to me having ‘a good day’ as anything about the puzzle. I’ll be interested to see how the rest of you find it.
I also finished this one in record time. Kept on expecting to get stuck sooner or later but never really did. No new or longer words and fairly straightforward, neat clueing, so yes, easier than usual for me. I liked 11a best of all and presume ‘lashings of’ in 24a refers to a great amount of, thus taking care of a missing ‘e’.
Patrick. Thank you for solving the parsing of 24a. I was troubled about how to dispose of the extra “e”.
I was stuck in the south west corner, but perseverance paid off.
My likes this week
9a. I had to check the dictionary for the meaning of one word.
11a I like mine neat
6d Well crafted
19d. I struggled with this one, but it was so easy in the end.
So it’s not just me – all done in record time – by 10am.
Either David has got Tougher, or I’ve got Smarter – OR Both.
May need to revisit Archives for another Fix this week.
Hi Richard, #47 just took me 2-3 days – quite a toughie.
Have gone with #86 – July 08,2015 – Patrick
Will keep your #47 in mind,
just in case I don’t get out more often!!!
Should have checked here First
Not too tough for me – but I’m sure I’ve found some of the more recent Sticklers to be easier than this one. Maybe I was having an off day.
1a: interesting surface reading
6a: I always enjoy a golf reference
9a, 11a: I’m with Arthur
16a: elegant wordplay
24a: I liked “also known as”
2d: I enjoyed the double use of “wrongly interpreted”
13d: nice definition