FT 13,024/Adamant
Please excuse the drive-by blog, which I’ll aim to flesh out in a couple of hours. (I can sympathise with the clue at 8D today.) Not much to explain, although I suspect that … Read more >>
Day: 13 March 2009
Independent 6991/Phi
I found this unusually difficult — the two-word clues were a problem and one or two short answers are even now not totally clear. But apart from one or two quibbles, a typically … Read more >>
Beelzebub 994 (08/03/09)
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. I actually managed to finish this on the Sunday, which is something of a rarity for me. Still, it was a very pleasant way to … Read more >>
Guardian 24646 / Auster
Quite a few nice clues in this fairly easy puzzle from Auster. (I’m a bit disappointed there’s are no Australian words or phrases this time, though. :)) Across 1. MILDEWED MILD + EWE … Read more >>
Independent 6986/Scorpion (Prize puzzle 07-03-09)
Scorpion has a reputation as one of the tougher Indie setters but I found this pretty easy. Good fun to solve too, which is the most important thing after all. Just two queries … Read more >>
Inquisitor 114 – Monkey Runs by Dysart
We were told that the initial letters of extra words in twenty-two (of forty-seven) clues would spell out the source of a quotation explaining what happens to seven answers. These initial letters would … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations 852 — Growth by Rustic
I might be being unduly unfair but I was dissatisfied with this puzzle overall. On the plus side the idea was neat and simple and many of the clues were good and relatively … Read more >>