Guardian 25,248 – Araucaria
Not a surprising choice of setter following yesterday’s rather special crossword – this puzzle looked a little daunting at first but wasn’t too tricky once the grid began to fill. Slightly unsure on … Read more >>
Never knowingly undersolved
Not a surprising choice of setter following yesterday’s rather special crossword – this puzzle looked a little daunting at first but wasn’t too tricky once the grid began to fill. Slightly unsure on … Read more >>
A perfectly respectable crossword, with several particularly fine clues. Just a pity for Styx that that it’s hard to escape the inevitable sense of “After the Lord Mayor’s show..” still lingering from yesterday’s … Read more >>
After what seems to have been a succession of highly complicated and clever crosswords recently, it’s quite nice to get back to something vanilla. But what vanilla. The very best you can get. … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the FT of Monday 7 February Another Monday, another Dante. As usual, there are some clever cd’s (4 down, 8 down stand out for me) and dd’s (I particularly liked … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 5 Here’s another good puzzle from Cincinnus. My favourite clues are 9A (TITLE), 12A (WHOA), 20A (NICK) and 7D (BEECH). Three answers were terms I … Read more >>