Posted by Admin on May 10th, 2013
The annual lunch for Times setters is taking place on 23rd May and this will be followed by a Sloggers and Betters get-together in The Town of Ramsgate (62 Wapping High Street E1) from 4pm onwards. All welcome.
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Posted by Andrew on May 10th, 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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Posted by duncanshiell on May 10th, 2013
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Posted by John on May 9th, 2013
A rather difficult but enjoyable and so far as I can see utterly sound crossword from Tees (except perhaps for 1dn, about which I shall no doubt be corrected). He has achieved a rather odd feat, which I shall mention in a moment; the other feat which he almost achieved (if indeed he was even trying to achieve it) was to have no anagrams in the crossword. This failed and he had to use them in two clues, but only two I think.
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Posted by Ringo on May 9th, 2013
I always enjoy Redshank’s puzzles, although my enjoyment in this instance was tempered by the fact that, having dashed through the NW corner, I spent half an hour staring at the rest of the grid in a stupor of dumb incomprehension. I’m still stumped by 19dn.
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Posted by manehi on May 9th, 2013
Fun and challenging, despite the two longer clues falling almost immediately. Favourites were 15a and 3d.
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Posted by Sil van den Hoek on May 9th, 2013
Monday Prize Crossword/Apr 29
Yes, half of the clues were double or cryptic definitions, but this was once more an enjoyable offering from Dante. That said, I am always a bit annoyed when seeing clues that I saw before (6d, 22d).
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Posted by Pete Maclean on May 9th, 2013
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Posted by PeeDee on May 8th, 2013
I found this much more amenable than the previous Io I blogged which was a desperate struggle – so getting to the end of this puzzle unaided came as something of a relief. Still not easy though, thank you Io. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by Bertandjoyce on May 8th, 2013
Last Wednesday we had a special May Day offering from Donk but we are now back to normal with a lovely puzzle from Dac
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Posted by PeterO on May 8th, 2013
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25942.
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Posted by kenmac on May 8th, 2013
Preamble: Clues are arranged in alphabetical order of answers. Cells numbered 1 to 13 spell out a security question. 13 similarly arranged cells (including four shared clashing cells) will reveal the mistranscribed response. Solvers must consider the original response when choosing the more appropriate of two possible sets of instructions. Charybdis recommends following these instructions for real. A resulting line drawing will help solvers, who must finally decide how to shade these 22 cells using two colours, and hence resolve the four clashes.
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Posted by RatkojaRiku on May 7th, 2013
Tuesday today, so you take pot luck in terms of the setter. Today offered me a rare opportunity to blog a puzzle by Jambazi.
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Posted by scchua on May 7th, 2013
Another enjoyable puzzle from Neo. Some difficult bits, with one answer whose explanation I struggled with, and finally had to consult my crossword oracle, with thanks. Thanks too to Neo, as always. 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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