Posted by bridgesong on 16th June 2013
A reasonably straightforward Azed this week, if perhaps a little harder than average. I have a couple of queries which will no doubt be resolved swiftly by the usual suspects. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by duncanshiell on 9th June 2013
This was a standard plain crossword from Azed with the usual mix of precise cluing and unfamiliar words.
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Posted by ilancaron on 2nd June 2013
I’ve solved harder Azeds. Rather disappointed that there’s a wordplay I still can’t parse. And I’m struggling to understand why Azed thinks the Grand Canyon is small? I’m sure someone will clarify though. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by John on 25th May 2013
Usually when I blog an Azed puzzle everything is straightforward enough — do the puzzle, do the blog by Monday evening and schedule it for appearance the following Sunday. This one was different: the actual solving of the clues went as usual, and by the end of it I’d solved them all but still couldn’t see any connection between what appeared to be the unclued entries, and the answer at 7dn was not coming. I feared that either I’d have to say to everyone ‘sorry, you may have been bewildered by this puzzle and have come to this site in the hope of enlightenment, but I just can’t help: does anyone know what is happening?’, or perhaps I could ask someone at the Sloggers and Betters on Thursday to help me.
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Posted by Andrew on 19th May 2013
I got going pretty quickly with this one, and thought it might be a bit of a walkover, but the last few clues,especially in the SE corner, slowed me to a crawl. It almost goes without saying that the clueing is of the usual high Azedian standard, but I had a couple of niggles/queries that others may be able to put me right on.
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Posted by The Trafites on 12th May 2013
Nick: This was perhaps the toughest ‘plain’ puzzle from Azed (other than the ‘specials’) that I have attempted – a definite 10/10 on the hardness scale.
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Posted by bridgesong on 5th May 2013
The usual mix of obscure words and Ximenean clues, although I have a couple of minor queries which I’m sure others can resolve. A crossword notable for three different ways of cluing the letter “H” as well as for using AZ without a self-reference. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by duncanshiell on 28th April 2013
This was a standard plain crossword from Azed with the usual mix of precise cluing and unfamilair words.
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Posted by ilancaron on 21st April 2013
A single unresolved wordplay and what appears to be a mistake by our friend Azed. Difficulty about mid-range for Azed — not terribly easy but nonetheless solvable by mere mortals such as myself. See notes below for ALGEBRAic explanation — thanks to Andrew.
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Posted by John on 14th April 2013
A nice crossword of the type that Azed often sets. The preamble states “Apart from 1 Across, which is normal, each clue is really two clues, side by side but not overlapping, the answers to which are to be entered in the two similarly numbered squares in the diagram, either side of the central vertical bold line. Either word may be clued first, and the division is not necessarily marked by punctuation….”
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Posted by Andrew on 7th April 2013
Another low- to medium-strength Azed, which didn’t keep me from my Easter eggs for too long, but provided good entertainment on the way. There seems to have been a rare lapse from strict Ximenean principles in 5d.
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Posted by bridgesong on 24th March 2013
A reasonably straightforward plain puzzle this week, but I do have a couple of quibbles about the cluing, and one where I may not have understood the wordplay at all, so suggestions are as always very welcome. Some relatively easy clues, especially towards the bottom of the grid. Thanks to Richard Heald for his corrections. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by duncanshiell on 17th March 2013
Another 6 weeks has gone by and Azed falls to me to blog again. It’s always a pleasure to do battle with Azed’s precise clues
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Posted by ilancaron on 10th March 2013
Pretty easy but I used the BRB without compunction and there’s a wordplay or two as “exercises for the reader”. And a little Daily Telegraphism at the top: Dangerous Dan.
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