Bridgesong has the honour of blogging the last Azed monthly competition puzzle. Please take a moment to read his review in the following blog:
Independent 12,275 by Knut
Knut provides our Tuesday morning amusement.
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 29,926 by Qaos
Qaos is this morning’s setter.
Financial Times 18,290 by PETO
I have rather a stupefying cold today, so I cannot tell whether this puzzle was hard or I was enfeebled or some combination of the two.
Spectator 2736 – Jammy by Fieldfare
The 15×15 Spectator blogging schedule pits me against (shurely ‘with’, Ed) Fieldfare again…what kind of JAMMY are we after here – jammy as in lucky? jammy as in filled like a doughnut?…
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 29,925 by Anto
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29925.
Financial Times 18,289 by SLORMGORM
SLORMGORM kicks off the week…
MyCrossword No 4 by Iguess
This was my first go at a puzzle on MyCrossword and I found it to be fairly tricky.
Independent 12,274 by Jeemz
Jeemz is a new setter in the Independent
Financial Times 18,288 by Leonidas
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 7, 2026
Guardian Quiptic 1,368 by Hectence
The weekly online only crossword from the Guardian found here
Everyman 4,137/1 February
Another pleasing puzzle from Everyman for our Sunday morning entertainment.
Independent on Sunday 1876 Filbert
Thank you to Filbert. Definitions are underlined in the clues.
Azed No. 2,776 – the end of an era
This is the first Azed puzzle to appear since the announcement last week of his retirement from the monthly clue-writing competition.
Listener Crossword No 4903: Fisher Transformation by Mr Snaky: A Setter’s Blog
It’s about 3 years since I came up with the idea for Fisher Transformation so my recollection of its creation is a little bit sketchy. But here we go.