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Day: 11 May 2009

Independent 7041 by Glow-Worm

May 11, 2009 at 12:57 pm by NealH

*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def Some nice clues, but also one or two I thought were a bit hard to decipher (especially 16 across). Across 1 Pass round the hat: … Read more >>

Categories Independent 5 Comments

Guardian 24,696 – Rufus

May 11, 2009 at 10:20 am by Ciaran McNulty

A fairly straightforward puzzle, but with a few clues I wasn’t happy with – some very tortured defs in 12ac, 15ac, 18dn, for instance.  I did like some of the shorter simple clues, … Read more >>

Categories Guardian 21 Comments

Private Eye/Cyclops 390 – Smug opposition

May 11, 2009 at 6:53 amMay 11, 2009 at 12:15 am by beermagnet

Nothing too onerous here – I fair whipped through this one on half a journey home – but a few clues had some fairly convoluted wordplay. Across 1 SHRUB (BUSH)* AInd: pissed, around … Read more >>

Categories Private Eye/Cyclops 2 Comments

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