Financial Times 13,284 / Viking
[Now that the crossword has been uploaded on the site, removing the placeholder and filling in the analysis.] A fine puzzle from Viking, with intricate wordplay at a few places that needed working … Read more >>
Day: 15 January 2010
Beelzebub 1,038 (10/01/10)
A very tough week for me, not helped by not being able to locate an unusually high number of the answers in Chambers, rather than just the names and places. *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, … Read more >>
Guardian 24,908 – Arachne
Found this quite tough to get into but got there in the end… some very clever cluing, I thought. Nice theme of eating and drinking, with some kind of nod towards it in … Read more >>
Independent 7254/Phi
The usual nice Phi, not too hard but one or two tricky ones. I think the little Nina is just that 10ac refers to 11ac and 26ac refers to 25ac. Across 1 MO(V AB)LES — my … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1107: Removals by Ploy
Jumbles of words have to be removed from nine clues before solving; these words form five items and we have to black out a symmetrical two-word phrase in the completed grid that describes … Read more >>