Posted by RatkojaRiku on 9th April 2013
It is Tuesday morning, so you can never quite be sure which compiler you will have to pit your wits against, but you can be almost sure that you will have some theme or other to grapple with.
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Posted by NealH on 8th April 2013
I’ve not come across Alchemi before, but this seemed to be very much in the tradition of reasonably gentle Quixote Monday puzzles. There were a few where the wordplay took a bit of working out e.g. 13, 22.
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Posted by Pierre on 7th April 2013
I haven’t blogged a Kairos puzzle before, but having had a brief look in the Fifteensquared archive I see he made his Indy debut earlier this year. I enjoyed tussling with this one, but I can’t remember when I last had to bury my head in the dictionary for so long when solving and blogging an IoS puzzle. There are two clues I can’t explain: I’m pretty sure that one is faulty, and the other may be too. I’m sure someone will put me right if I haven’t understood them properly.
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Posted by mc_rapper67 on 6th April 2013
An interesting mixture from Nimrod here - a plethora of long answers - six 15-letter entries – and a smidge-ette of a theme which, unless I missed something, didn’t seem to develop into anything …
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Posted by John on 5th April 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 by Bertandjoyce on 4th April 2013
Bert looked at this puzzle and immediately solved two clues. He knew that Joyce would not be too pleased if he carried on looking and solved further answers as quickly!
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on 3rd April 2013
It is Wednesday today, and not the last in the month, so it must be time for my regular blogging appointment with Dac.
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Posted by duncanshiell on 2nd April 2013
I haven’t blogged a Tees puzzle for some time, so it was a pleasure to see his name on this one
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Posted by Pierre on 1st April 2013
A puzzle from Quixote that was full of non-Ximenean constructions, loose cluing and obscure definitions. What’s the world coming to?
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Posted by scchua on 31st March 2013
Just a bit harder than the other Hypnos puzzles I have blogged previously. Thanks Hypnos. A few references to the movies, but can’t see any theme though. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links to the puzzle.]]
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Posted by Bertandjoyce on 30th March 2013
We thought this was an enjoyable and not too challenging Prize Puzzle for a very snowy and cold weekend.
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Posted by Bertandjoyce on 29th March 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 by RatkojaRiku on 28th March 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 by duncanshiell on 27th March 2013
Most Independent bloggers cycle through Friday, Thursday, Wednesday and Tuesday. Crosophile seems to be on a monthly cycle on the last Wednesday of the month. So if there are 4 weeks in the month, the Wednesday blogger will get Crosophile twice in successive months. That’s a long way tound of saying this is my second Crosophile puzzle in successive months, but I’m not complaining.
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Posted by John on 26th March 2013
A pleasant solve from Raich. As always one or two of the clues were very simple, which is no bad thing, but a few were a little tricky. I think I have it all explained but no doubt someone will put me right if not.
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