An Azed with some nicely challenging clues this week. I managed to complete it without a dictionary, while watching England lose the first ODI at Lord’s — though I did need to double-check a few solutions once I got home to Chambers. I am completing this blog in the aftermath of watching an even more abject, and ultimately tedious, ODI defeat (though Brett Lee was formidable). Never mind, I was there when we won the Ashes!

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No big surprises here and nothing very difficult. There do seem to be a lot of word or part word reversals in this one. The main point of note is a rare but welcome quadruple definition in 19dn and actually quite a liberal spread of double definitions too. Read the rest of this entry »