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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Guardian 25,941 by Paul
Posted by Uncle Yap on 7th May 2013
I solved this in about half an hour but spend a lot more time being distracted, first by playing Spice Girls songs and then Queen’s haunting Bohemian Rhapsody a few times here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ. Very entertaining and quite enough to alleviate the intense disappointment that we did not get a new government after all. Thank you, Paul. Read the rest of this entry »
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Guardian 25,940 / Rufus
Posted by Eileen on 6th May 2013
A pretty typical Rufus puzzle for a sunny [!] Bank Holiday morning – lovely surfaces throughout, a fair sprinkling of anagrams and cryptic [some not so cryptic] definitions, some clever clues, like 24ac and 6 and 11 dn, a few double definitions – and one ambiguous clue, 17ac. Many thanks, Rufus – enjoy the day, everyone!
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Guardian Prize 25,933 / Araucaria
Posted by Eileen on 4th May 2013
And still Araucaria keeps them coming! Like PeterO yesterday, I count myself blessed in having landed a good proportion of them recently. I was fortunate in that 12ac, for which we Brits, of necessity, have a number of paraphrases, was one of the handful that I got on the first run-through, so, once I got started, I found this an amusing and entertaining solve, during which, perhaps fittingly, there was a very sudden and rather violent freak hailstorm here.
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Guardian Cryptic N° 25,938 by Araucaria
Posted by PeterO on 3rd May 2013
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25938.
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Guardian Cryptic 25937 Puck
Posted by scchua on 2nd May 2013
An enjoyable bit-of-a-challenge puzzle from Puck, whom I haven’t blogged before. Some interesting and satisfying clues. Thanks to Puck. 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 25,936 / Paul
Posted by Eileen on 1st May 2013
Another very entertaining puzzle [squeaky-clean today!] from Paul, with some clever clues, as usual, providing a number of smiles along the way. Many thanks for the fun, Paul – I really enjoyed it
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Guardian 25,935 by Gordius
Posted by Uncle Yap on 30th April 2013
I careered through this puzzle merrily until the very last clue and I am still wondering. Otherwise, an easy-going puzzle today
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Guardian 25,934 – Rufus
Posted by Andrew on 29th April 2013
The usual Rufus style, which was pretty much a write-in for me today, though I’m puzzled by the construction of 20d. Not any more – see comments Read the rest of this entry »
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Guardian 25,927 / Crucible
Posted by mhl on 27th April 2013
Apologies for the late post – we didn’t complete this last Saturday morning, and I managed to forget that I was meant to be writing a post about it. Anyway, we found this difficult, but it’s a high quality crossword with lots of lovely clues. There’s a theme of the 60th anniversary of Crick and Watson’s discovery of the structure of DNA. The rubric, with clue answers substituted, reads:
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Guardian Cryptic N° 25,932 by Orlando
Posted by PeterO on 26th April 2013
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25932.
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Guardian 25,931 / Paul
Posted by Eileen on 25th April 2013
I think this is one of the easiest Paul puzzles I’ve solved – but no less enjoyable for that - and, after yesterday, that’s perhaps a bit of a relief. Clues such as 20ac, 22ac, 25ac, 4dn, 18dn – and also 8,24ac - give strong hints as to the authorship and provide a few smiles / sniggers. There are, as always, some inventive anagram and insertion indicators, ingenious constructions and witty surfaces. Many thanks, Paul!
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Guardian 25,930 – Enigmatist
Posted by Andrew on 24th April 2013
It’s been quite a while since we saw Enigmatist on a weekday — not since 5 July last year in fact — and as always I was a little apprehensive when I saw his name. I got a few answers quickly and thought this might be one of his gentler efforts, but slowed down rather towards the end. There are a couple of clues I can’t fully parse, and I have a query about the answer given in the online version for 24a. In the interests of getting the blog published I will now hand over to m’learned friends in the comments.
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Guardian 25,929 by Pasquale
Posted by Uncle Yap on 23rd April 2013
I cannot say I enjoyed this too much today and I am not grumpy. (Why do some people say I am grumpy whenever I point out something I do not like very much?) There are far too many homophone clues and I have found both here and at TFTTimes blog that pronunciation differ throughout the English-speaking world (e.g. last week’s wee jars and wee gees) Occasionally, homophone may make for a clever device but it can be overdone, like today
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Guardian 25,928 – Chifonie
Posted by manehi on 22nd April 2013
Enjoyable and not too difficult. Favourite clues were 18a, 21a and 11d.
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