Guardian Cryptic N° 25,956 by Brendan
Posted by PeterO on 24th May 2013
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25956.
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Guardian 25,954 – Chifonie
Posted by Andrew on 22nd May 2013
It took me longer to get going on this than usual for a Chifonie, but it all came out nicely in the end, with some well-written, if uncomplicated, clues.
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Guardian 25,953 by Pasquale
Posted by Uncle Yap on 21st May 2013
Thank you, Eileen for playing locum tenens so ably last Tuesday when I was climbing the 999 steps to the TienMenSan (Door to Heaven) near ZhangJiaJie in Hunan, the province that gave China an illustrious son, Mao Zedong. Coupled with the Hash run hosted by the Guangzhou Hash, it made for a most refreshing break.
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Guardian 25,952 – Rufus
Posted by manehi on 20th May 2013
Found this quite tough for a Rufus – the SE corner held me up, and I had to resort to Google for 25ac given the unhelpful crossers. Favourite clues were 6dn and 8dn, as well as 25ac once I understood it.
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Guardian 25,945 / Araucaria (12/5/13)
Posted by Gaufrid on 18th May 2013
Apologies for the late appearance of this post. The scheduled blogger has been unable to post and I have been struggling to remember what I did a week ago.
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Guardian 25,950 / Arachne
Posted by Eileen on 17th May 2013
What a lovely end to the week – Arachne on top form – and aren’t I lucky to get two excellent puzzles to blog in one week? It’s all here – great story-telling [and misleading] surfaces, topical allusions, wit, ingenious constructions: I need say no more, except huge thanks to Arachne – I loved it!
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Guardian 25,949 – Araucaria
Posted by Andrew on 16th May 2013
I made a slow start on this, but after thinking for a while I was going to get nowhere with it, it gradually began to yield. My breakthrough was to be led to the (literally and metaphorically) central thematic answer at 17,19,20 by getting 11,5 from the anagram. Lots of fun in the clues, as always – an enjoyable and satisfying (and tasty) feast. (Anyone trying to use the online version today will have problems, as some of the numbers in the grid are in the wrong order. I gather from comments on the Guardian website that this has also affected some copies of the printed version.)
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Guardian Cryptic N° 25,948 by Paul
Posted by PeterO on 15th May 2013
The crossword may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25948.
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Guardian 25.947 / Philistine
Posted by Eileen on 14th May 2013
I am standing in today for Uncle Yap, who is away. I don’t think I have blogged a Philistine puzzle before but I’m a great fan of his, so I count myself lucky to have drawn this one.
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Guardian Cryptic 25946 Rufus
Posted by scchua on 13th May 2013
A typical Rufus with concise clues of mostly cryptic and double definitions and anagrams. Thanks Rufus. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links to the puzzle. Please enclose any comments on them in double brackets. Thank you.]]
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Guardian Prize Puzzle 25,939 by Tramp
Posted by PeeDee on 10th May 2013
I used to find Tramp puzzles pretty tricky but I think I must be getting on to his wavelength at last. I have not seen any of the Star Wars movies but fortunately for me it was not necessary to know anything about them to get to the solutions. Thank you Tramp.
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Guardian 25,944 – Gordius
Posted by Andrew on 10th May 2013
Gordius is appearing at strange intervals these days – he used to be fairly predictably every other week, but then we saw him on a Friday and the following Tuesday, and now today as well as last Tuesday. Regular readers will know I am not his greatest fan: I found this a little harder than some of his recent puzzles, though with no major hold-ups, and with the usual smattering of niggles.
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Guardian 25,943 – Brummie
Posted by manehi on 9th May 2013
Fun and challenging, despite the two longer clues falling almost immediately. Favourites were 15a and 3d.
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Guardian Cryptic N° 25,942 by Brendan
Posted by PeterO on 8th May 2013
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25942.
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