Posted by PeeDee on 15th June 2011
A very good crossword from Gaff, which I enjoyed immensely. I started late, as I had to retrieve a sick child from school, and then after a long time was still staring a grid with only 4 completed solutions and facing the very embarrassing prospect of having to ask someone else to complete the blog for me. Finally I gave in and started searching Wikipedia for a likely aniversary and then hit the jackpot and the answers started coming thick and fast.
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Posted in FT | 7 Comments »
Posted by John on 15th June 2011
As always a lovely crossword from Dac. I solved it online and didn’t time myself, but there seemed to be nothing of any great difficulty here: it all went in very smoothly, something that is not always true for this solver, even with Dac. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by PeterO on 15th June 2011
This time a title is in order, since tales are plastered all over the clues. Enjoyable, with some fine surfaces and a few convoluted wordplays. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Guardian | 41 Comments »
Posted by HolyGhost on 15th June 2011
Extra letters in the wordplay of across clues indicate how answers to down clues are to be entered. Seven letters have to be highlighted in the completed grid.
An 11×11 grid, and so not many clues … good news for a blogger? We’ll see.
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