Financial Times 13,277 / Bradman
This was something of a rope-a-dope experience for me, as I played Foreman to Bradman’s Ali. After charging through the first half – thinking the setter to be unusually tame today – I toiled … Read more >>
Day: 7 January 2010
Independent 7,247/Punk
Nice to get a Punk puzzle for my first blog of 2010. I found this on the easier side as Thursdays go, though none the less enjoyable for it. A very good spread … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,268 / Cinephile
Christmas Prize Puzzle on 24 December. “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the grid. Geographic isometry the Reverend had hid.” Thematic clues are denoted below as “grid entry {correspondingly-clued city/country}”. Of … Read more >>
Independent 7,243 by Virgilius (Saturday Prize Puzzle, 02/01/10)
A very enjoyable puzzle from Virgilius. For my own part, found this to be one of the easiest Saturday puzzles I can remember, finishing unaided in roughly 20 minutes – although I don’t … Read more >>
Guardian 24,901 / Brendan
I’ve been very fortunate today – one of my favourite setters, who did not disappoint, giving us a pleasant literary theme, that was not too dominant, with some deft interlinking and flawless cluing, … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations 894 Gas Control by Shark
Oddly, I had just completed a Shark puzzle in Magpie before downloading the EV and discovering that it too was a Shark. I found the Magpie puzzle relatively easy but this one proved … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1038 by Quixote – 3 Jan 2010
There is something to look for here, referred to after the clue explanations, solving time 22 mins. * = anagram < = reversed ACROSS 7 REMITTANCE (Meter it can)* 9 UREA hidden 10 … Read more >>