It’s Virgilius so there must be a theme. Hmm, 6 long across entries; definitely a theme. The anagram at 11ac jumped straight out at me as did the one for 14ac, which is, incidentally, excellent. Once I had those two the theme was obvious and it was only a matter of working out if the shorter across answers were part of the theme—they are—and if the down answers were included—on the whole they’re not. This was the usual high-quality puzzle from Virgilius, if a little on the easy side because of the thematic elements. Read the rest of this entry »

An enjoyable and challenging Tuesday puzzle from Shed. Once you get the two longer answers, the rest is just clever enough to keep you interested, which is a good trick to carry off. Two of the clues in particular were very well constructed – 12ac and 23dn, but I also liked 22ac and 3dn.Being an atheist, this took me a bit longer than I’d like to admit because my lack of religious knowledge let me down on a couple of allusions, but I got there in the end.

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