Posted by Admin on 30th April 2011
The next Sloggers and Betters (London) get-together will take place on Tuesday 24th May. The venue will be the Ship and Shovell under Charing Cross Station and it is expected that the early birds will start gathering at around 4pm.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 30th April 2011
Nimrod is one of the most prolific compilers at the moment, under a variety of pseudonyms. He is also Enigmatist in the Guardian, Io in the Financial Times and Elgar in the Daily Telegraph.
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Posted by bridgesong on 30th April 2011
I solved most of this puzzle on the train from London to Lyon, and found it an excellent way of making a long journey shorter. Unfortunately there was no online version available so I have been unable to use PeeDee’s software to incorporate the clues but here is a link to the pdf of the puzzle if you’ve sent yours off.
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Posted by twencelas on 30th April 2011
So no grid numbers this week – just a list of straight clues in alphabetical order of their grid entry, forming an alphabetical jigsaw. After the majority have been entered, the remaining grid entries need to be broken up to form a quotation and its author around the grid perimeter.
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Posted by shuchi on 29th April 2011
The line “A celebratory crossword” at the top of the clue list gave me some trepidation. Not being up on the details of the big event happening today, this meant a challenge, and a challenge it proved to be. The 53-letter anagram spread all over the grid looked insurmountable for a long time till the non-thematic clues began to fall in place and gave me some letters to go upon.
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Posted by mhl on 29th April 2011
As always, an excellent, entertaining crossword from Paul. The clue of the day is certainly the brilliant and topical “Fancy lad and me tied knot!”
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Posted by flashling on 29th April 2011
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Posted by smiffy on 28th April 2011
Suppose I should have seen the theme coming. I thought Neo did well to stretch the thematic material as far as he did – even if it may be a little too innuendo-laden for cap-doffing Cavalier tastes.
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on 28th April 2011
This is my first attempt at blogging a Mordred crossword and I have to say that it has been a real struggle, first to solve and above all to blog. I fear that there may be several clues where my tortuous parsing is somewhat wide of the mark – I’d even managed to convince myself that 3 was a completely different word. I would be grateful for any help, which I can then add to the blog latter in the day. After much head-scratching, the penny finally dropped for 12, not that I’ve ever seen it used in practice as a greeting.
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Posted by Eileen on 28th April 2011
I am pretty sure this is the first appearance of a Tramp cryptic crossword. I remembered seeing his name on a Genius puzzle earlier in the year and, after some research on this site, I found that Tramp was not, as had been suspected, yet another manifestation of Paul but, in fact, a great admirer of his.
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 28th April 2011
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Posted by Ali on 27th April 2011
My first time blogging a Crosophile puzzle, and a very nice one it was too.
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Posted by PeeDee on 27th April 2011
A good crossword today from Gozo, harder than it looks at first sight.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 27th April 2011
This puzzle had a preamble that I had to read a few times before I really understood it, and even then the whole thing didn’t make complete sense until I had completed the final step of the puzzle.
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