Posted by Pierre on 22nd April 2012
Another pleasing Sunday morning solve from Everyman, with a wide range of references. Fewer anagrams than usual from this setter, but still an accessible puzzle with a nice range of cluing devices. And I learned a new word, which is always welcome.
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Posted by Dave Hennings on 21st April 2012
A seemingly straightforward puzzle this week, but I was sure it wouldn’t turn out to be free of a trick or two.
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Posted by bridgesong on 21st April 2012
This is the second prize puzzle by Paul that has fallen to me to blog in succession, and there are no complaints from me, although I do have a couple of quibbles. This puzzle featured an animal theme, with every clue (and many solutions) having a reference to an animal of some kind, some very ingeniously. I am bothered by 2 down (assuming that I’ve got it right), which strikes me as a very weak clue by Pauline standards.
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Posted by mc_rapper67 on 21st April 2012
A nice ‘straightforward’ puzzle here from Monk, with no obvious thematic links or complications, but some lovely surface readings, especially the two long across clues. I originally found myself wondering if this was ‘difficult’ enough to be a Saturday prize puzzle. However, on working through it more fully I suspect the presence of a nina which might make those two long answers more significant?
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Posted by Eileen on 20th April 2012
I thought this puzzle was great fun – lots of smiles and ‘aha’ moments along the way. Many thanks, Puck, for a very enjoyable and entertaining end to a wet week.
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on 20th April 2012
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Posted by Ringo on 19th April 2012
Nothing hugely challenging. An overdose of charades and a few too many four-letter words for my taste, but some solid clueing and some marvellously misleading definitions. Thank-you, Jason. Nice way to start a rainy Thursday.
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Posted by Andrew on 19th April 2012
I learned a couple of new (botanical) words from today’s puzzle. Fortunately, the clues were reasonably easy and, as one would expect from Pasquale, admirably sound. The grid is not one of the Guardian’s best, but the three multi-entry down clues help to even things up in the solver’s favour. Grazie, Don Pasquale.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 19th April 2012
Tees has given us a puzzle, mainly populated with well known words, although the main theme did generate one slightly obscure phrase (to me, at least) that was fairly easily deducible from the wordplay.
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Posted by scchua on 19th April 2012
An enjoyable prize crossword, neatly clued. Thanks to Crux. Definitions are underlined in the clues.
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 19th April 2012
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Posted by PeeDee on 18th April 2012
A very enjoyable crossword, a lot easier to write the answers than to explain why they are are correct.
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Posted by John on 18th April 2012
As usual a thoroughly satisfactory crossword from Dac; indeed ‘satisfactory’ is to damn with faint praise. It is of course far more than satisfactory, and as always the surfaces are smooth and shiny. Read the rest of this entry »
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