Beelzebub 1,042 (07/02/10)
A slightly strange one for me, racing through all but a handful unhindered and thus unaided, struggling on a few more, and finally finding myself absolutely stumped at 21dn, for which I’ve reproduced … Read more >>
Day: 12 February 2010
Guardian 24,932 – Gordius
Nothing very troublesome from Gordius today. Across 1 TRAFFIC (Craft if)*. Nice &lit 5 SUSTAIN STAIN around US 9 IVY LEAGUE (i.e. vaguely)*, i.e.=”that is” 10 PILOT I=”one” in PLOT 11 LAMP L[arge] … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,308 / Viking
After a series of easy Fridays, a tough one from Viking with some fine clues. The bottom-right corner was the last to fall, with 21a/21d causing much perplexity before the ‘aha’ moments came. … Read more >>
Independent 7273 by Nimrod, Sat 6 Feb – Serendipity strikes again …
… or so said Nimrod by e-mail when it turned out that I’d found an extra bit of thematic material. Solving time: 11:27 A fairly easy but well-crafted example of the multi-cross-reference puzzle … Read more >>
Independent 7,278 by Phi
All very good as usual. I enjoyed the four long entries around the perimeter, the solving of each one in turn greatly helping to fill another quarter of the grid. My one slip … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1111: First XV by Eddie
When I learned that The Inquisitor numbers were changing to what they would have been if they had gone sequentially from 1, I wondered if the editor had something up his sleeve for … Read more >>