Mail On Sunday £1500 Crossword

[fran b]

Can anyone help please with 12a A dagger sign used in printing ?b?l?s, I thought it was obelisk but wrong obviously

[MargoTester]

Obelus

[factor-fiction]

obelUS

[fran b]

Thank you for your help x

[Baldric]

OBELUS

[corylus]

FAO Margo Tester, DannyK etc. what do you think of the new system of sending results (ie today how many letters 'i' appear in the xword) to a text number?

Has anybody EVER won anything by entering this xword's results by whatever means?

[MargoTester]

Hi Corylus - I 've never entered any results, I just do it for fun, so I can't help I'm afraid. At least they seem to have sorted the problem of the two puzzles overlapping.

[brainiac]

I'd like to know how they give the three different methods of entry an equal chance of winning. Having said that, the Express Big Monday £1,000 crossword did something similar last year, where they coloured in some of the squares, the letters of which could then be arranged into a word. You could then just phone or text this word, or send the completed grid in. I continued to send the grid in as before.....and won! So it's possible, but I'd still like to know how they collate the entries.

[corylus]

Just wondering, I do this xword and sometimes if I'm distracted make an error in filling in a clue. So that ruins any chance of sending it in correctly, now it seems that just counting a few letters will suffice. So will we be getting the number of letters counted and required now to submit by about 9 am every Sunday by the Brains?