The usual pleasurable experience. All the clues are utterly sound and you know you’ll get there in the end, even if the progress is a bit slow. The words are — in this crossword it seems exceptionally — incredibly difficult and one spends ages wading through Chambers. Often one knows what the answer must be but simply doesn’t know words along the way. Read the rest of this entry »

A few slightly more obscure answers and a little fiendish wordplay here and there (8dn in particular) made this one a bit tricky, but hopefully pretty fair. Some lovely surfaces dotted about too. I particularly liked 25ac and 3dn. Read the rest of this entry »