Posted by Admin on 31st January 2013
Your nominations can be posted here: FT : Guardian : Independent
Nominations close on 7th February.
For the reason behind these nominations please see: 2013 Crossword Centenary.
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Posted by Admin on 31st January 2013
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Clue of the month: DATE, PUZZLE NUMBER, SETTER, CLUE NUMBER, CLUE
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Posted by Admin on 31st January 2013
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Puzzle of the month: DATE, PUZZLE NUMBER, SETTER, LINK TO PUZZLE
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Posted by Admin on 31st January 2013
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Puzzle of the month: DATE, PUZZLE NUMBER, SETTER, LINK TO PUZZLE
Clue of the month: DATE, PUZZLE NUMBER, SETTER, CLUE NUMBER, CLUE
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Posted by Ringo on 31st January 2013
Not sure if I’ve blogged on Wanderer before – but anyway, time is short, so I’ll simply say that I enjoyed this puzzle: nothing knock-your-socks-off great or tear-your-hair-out difficult, but plenty of variety, some very nice surfaces and a fairytale theme to boot. Thank-you, Wanderer.
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Posted by Eileen on 31st January 2013
An interesting and entertaining puzzle from Brummie, which turned out to be more straightforward than it looked at first sight. There are some clever and amusing surfaces, some of which may be a little clunky but I have no real niggles. In fact, I found it an enjoyable solve – many thanks to Brummie.
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on 31st January 2013
I know that when my blog falls on a Thursday there is a good chance that I will cross swords with Nestor, a challenge that I relish.
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Posted by Sil van den Hoek on 31st January 2013
Monday Prize Crossword/Jan 21
Once more an immaculately clued crossword by Falcon which can be found here. Not one at the higher end of the spectrum, but just like the Observer’s weekly Everyman – no coincidence, of course – one that will please beginners and more experienced solvers equally alike.
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Posted by Pete Maclean on 31st January 2013
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Posted by Admin on 30th January 2013
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Posted by PeeDee on 30th January 2013
Great stuff from Monk. Challenging as always, new words and unfamiliar definitions of old ones with plenty of misdirection to send us down the wrong track. Thank you Monk.
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Posted by Andrew on 30th January 2013
There seemed to be less to nitpick about here than I usually find in Gordius puzzles, but not a great deal to get excited about either, with a lot of very easy clues, some rather weak cryptic definitions, and a bit of obscure knowledge needed to confirm the parsing of 28a.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 30th January 2013
This is Crosophile’s first weekday outing of the year in the Independent series. We got our money’s-worth today with 32 clues. My experience of blogging the Independent is that 32 clues is the exception rather than the rule.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 30th January 2013
Shark has set a number of Inquisitor puzzles and each has been very satisfying. I blogged one focused on Socrates and his comment that he didn’t know there were so many things he could do without. Having glanced at many catalogues and websites over the Christmas period, I can tell him that nothing has changed.
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Posted by John on 29th January 2013
Yes I was right yesterday when I posted and said that I suspected the Raich crossword was easier than whatever I was going to be blogging today, but although this was on the tricky side all was fair and Anax has done his usual good job, with plenty of very nice clues. More than other setters, it seems, he often has equivalents for words that are not precise synonyms, but are interchangeable in some sentence, so long as you can find it. This seems perfectly fair.
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