The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[petef]

The copies of the paper round here have an advert printed over the bottom of the crossword. Can anyone provide the clues for 28 across and 24 down?

[possum]

Sorry, we have the same problem here

[Bigtone53]

I suppose that I should have noticed that the whole bottom line of the puzzle was mising. As it was, I just thought that the clues did not all match the puzzle.
An annoying way to start the week though.

[petef]

I've received this from The Times:

28 ACROSS: Crew's leader is indebted to yachting centre (5)

24 DOWN: Ordinary iron vessel (4)

The missing bottom line across the grid contains 15 squares - from left
to right there are 9 white spaces ( to contain the answer to 27 across),
one black space and then 5 white spaces, to contain the answer to 28
across.

Once again please accept our apologies for the mistake and the
disruption it has caused to your enjoyment.

[possum]

Thank you for that info, pete. I thought 28 across must be COWES!

[PaulIQ164]

By the by, there's an interesting piece of software at www.crosswordmaestro.com which purports to be a cryptic crossword solver. I tried it on a recent Times crossword, and while it certainly didn't get anywhere near solving it, it did get more than one clue right, which I thought was pretty impressive for a computer program.

[petef]

Back on topic, I've yet to receive a reply from The Times to my complaint about the first Samurai from the Sudoku Supplement - 22 October. Maybe a few more independent queries might help.