Posted on Saturday, May 11th, 2013
I think I have solved all the clues correctly, but I can’t quite explain the parsing/wordplay in all cases. And although I could detect an underlying theme-ette, there were a couple of ‘almost-nina’s that, again, I couldn’t quite justify. So maybe you could say I have failed this particular ‘Rorschach test’ – I hope it [...]
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Posted on Monday, May 6th, 2013
Klingsor starts the week, he seems to have gone for a &lit record attempt it felt like today.
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Posted on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
A lovely offering from Nestor today with nothing to complain about!
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Posted on Saturday, April 27th, 2013
A challenging puzzle, as one tends to expect from a Bannsider, but I got there. It took almost the entire week, but I did manage to finish unaided, though one or two took a little longer to understand even once the answer was clear.
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Posted on Friday, April 26th, 2013
Another Friday Phi puzzle to blog – we’re not complaining!
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Posted on Friday, April 26th, 2013
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25932.
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Posted on Saturday, April 20th, 2013
Here we are with Monk again and a very nice crossword that was fun to solve with the answers falling reasonably regularly, though I slowed to a halt at the last couple. But here’s the thing: I see no Nina or theme.
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Posted on Friday, April 19th, 2013
It is Friday today, Phi’s customary slot. I worked quite steadily through this one and, on the strength of the tight wordplay, was able to complete the puzzle fairly quickly and unaided, just using Google to confirm 4. My favourite clues today were 11 for its cheeky surface reading and 21 for its combination of [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
It makes a change to know in advance that I am going to cover a particular puzzle, rather than having to write a post at the last minute, and this is a temporary return to what used to be my regular Wednesday FT slot.
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Posted on Friday, April 5th, 2013
The usual excellent crossword from Phi. I took a bit longer than usual to get started, but once afloat all was well and the typically sound clueing didn’t hold me back too much.
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Posted on Friday, March 29th, 2013
We can hardly believe that another four weeks has gone by and it’s our turn to blog Phi again.
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Posted on Thursday, March 28th, 2013
It is Thursday today, so you never quite know who you will be pitting your wits against as solver/blogger. Today it was my turn to do battle with Eimi.
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Posted on Monday, March 18th, 2013
Nutmeg has produced a fair but toughish Quiptic for us this morning, I think. A good variety of cluing this month, with one or two that I particularly enjoyed.
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Posted on Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Rather late today I’m afraid for various reasons, not the least of which was that this was hard; for me, at any rate, although it all (or nearly all) makes sense now and some of the clues are very good.
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Posted on Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
The usual high-quality clueing from Bannsider, with a varied mix of the old and the new – and no particular theme or nina (that I could see).
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