Posted by scchua on June 18th, 2013
(Apologies for the late post.) This turned out okay in the end for me despite a slow start. Thanks Phssthpok for the enjoyment. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links to the puzzle. Please enclose any comments on them in double brackets. Thank you.]]
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Posted by John on June 18th, 2013
A good, slightly tough but not very, workout from Radian today. Some of the clues (especially 18ac) are excellent.
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Posted by Uncle Yap on June 18th, 2013
This is a mixed bag of goodies; some delightfully outrageous and some not so.
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Posted by flashling on June 17th, 2013
I was slightly surprised to see Quixote when I got the paper this morning, I thought he did alternate weeks and he did last Monday, something special planned for next week perhaps?
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Posted by PeterO on June 17th, 2013
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/quiptic/709.
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Posted by manehi on June 17th, 2013
Got through most of this quickly, but came unstuck for a long while on the last two – 21ac then 7dn. Favourite clues were 2dn and 8ac.
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Posted by Ali on June 16th, 2013
I haven’t blogged a Raich puzzle for a while, but always good to see him popping up on a Sunday. I liked this one a lot. Some tougher words took a while to crack, but everything was perfectly clued
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Posted by bridgesong on June 16th, 2013
A reasonably straightforward Azed this week, if perhaps a little harder than average. I have a couple of queries which will no doubt be resolved swiftly by the usual suspects. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Pierre on June 16th, 2013
A delightful, well-constructed entry-level puzzle from Everyman, with a variety of devices and everything clearly clued.
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Posted by bridgesong on June 15th, 2013
I found this to be a distinctly challenging puzzle, although I didn’t help myself by a stupid error which delayed my solving of 26 across, the key to the theme. There seemed to be a lot of homophones and very few anagrams. Some lovely surfaces and the usual wide range of references we can expect from an Araucaria puzzle. Thanks, Araucaria, for a good mental work-out. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by mc_rapper67 on June 15th, 2013
An enjoyable prize puzzle from Monk – with an interesting twist, or two…
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Posted by mc_rapper67 on June 15th, 2013
I found this puzzle quite challenging, partly due to a gap in my cultural references, which will be revealed – although I suspect many people who don’t have this gap may have got to the thematic entries, at least, straight from the title? Six thematic answers (undefined) need to be found, 20 extra letters identified to describe a related ’object’, which is then to be highlighted/shaded in the grid…
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Posted by Eileen on June 14th, 2013
What a treat to end the week! – Araucaria in great form, in a puzzle with one of his own favourite themes.
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