Guardian 24,958 / Rufus
The usual Rufus combination of cryptic [not too many] and double definitions and elegant and witty surfaces. Across 7 PHILATELY: PHI [anagram of HIP] + LATELY 8 QUICK: double definition [‘quick’ = ‘living’ … Read more >>
Never knowingly undersolved
The usual Rufus combination of cryptic [not too many] and double definitions and elegant and witty surfaces. Across 7 PHILATELY: PHI [anagram of HIP] + LATELY 8 QUICK: double definition [‘quick’ = ‘living’ … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism I finished this fairly quickly, with only the NE corner giving me a few problems. There was an unusually high number of &lits, of … Read more >>
No real problem with this lot – except 18A – for bringing back unpleasant memories, thus the blog title. You know there are some similarities between her and me: School reports show “hard … Read more >>