April 2011 – Page 2 – Fifteensquared

Guardian 25,307 – Brendan

April 27, 2011 at 10:38 amApril 27, 2011 at 1:46 am by Andrew

It’s been a while since I blogged a Brendan puzzle, so it was a delight to get this – one where every across clue includes the word “queen”, used in various ways, including … Read more >>

Independent 7652/Anax

April 26, 2011 at 11:10 am by John

Poor old Anax keeps on getting me at the moment. This wasn’t nearly so hard as his offering last week; the theme, which became clear when the long clue at 16ac was solved, … Read more >>

Financial Times 13677 Armonie

April 26, 2011 at 2:05 pmApril 26, 2011 at 8:38 am by scchua

This was quite a smooth solve, except for 7A which held me up for a bit. In fact the “spare” time from the faster completion, was spent in embellishing (maybe too much, in … Read more >>

Guardian 25306 Gordius … TO LET

April 26, 2011 at 3:58 pmApril 26, 2011 at 2:12 am by Uncle Yap

Two weeks ago, I apologised for using Dr Livingstone, I presume? in the headline. I further added Green Eggs and Ham,the title of Dr Zeuss’s classic as an example of something totally unrelated. … Read more >>

Quiptic 597/Nutmeg

April 25, 2011 at 5:02 pm by Pierre

Called off the bench by Gaufrid as substitute blogger. I suspect the difficulty is that the Guardian website is still showing last week’s puzzle. Anyway, if anyone does access the crossword, then this … Read more >>

Independent 7651 / Nestor

April 25, 2011 at 8:23 am by Gaufrid

A generally straightforward puzzle though I needed on-line assistance to work out part of the parsing in 6dn and 14ac had me completely beaten but I think I have now worked out the … Read more >>

Guardian 25,305 / Rufus

April 25, 2011 at 7:59 amApril 25, 2011 at 7:17 am by duncanshiell

As I am double booked with another commitment early this morning, I was a bit worried that Easter Monday was going to produce a Guardian humdinger with a double grid and a complex … Read more >>

Private Eye/Cyclops 441 – Escape kettle

April 25, 2011 at 12:15 am by beermagnet

There’s always a bit of fun to be found in the Eye, and the crossword is the icing on the cake in the back pages. This puzzle was in the usual style and … Read more >>

Beelzebub 1104

April 24, 2011 at 8:00 am by Jed

Another tough call this week from the prince of the fallen angels Across 1 Painter’s coloured in nonsense BOSCH C in BOSH 6 Newspaper’s to follow the crowd RAGTAG RAG+TAG … Read more >>

Independent on Sunday 1105 by Raich

April 25, 2011 at 8:37 amApril 24, 2011 at 12:05 am by Uncle Yap

I have always found Quixote to be scrupulously fair and Ximenean so when I approached this first non-Quixote puzzle in this series, I was filled with a bit of trepidation. My fear, alas, … Read more >>

Azed 2029

April 24, 2011 at 12:05 am by Andrew

I finished about three-quarters of this quite quickly and without aids, but finishing it off was a bit more of a struggle. As usual I had to do quite a lot of Chambers-trawling … Read more >>

Everyman crossword No 3,368

April 24, 2011 at 10:03 pmApril 24, 2011 at 12:01 am by PeterO

This did not strike me as a top-notch Everyman. There are several simple charades where the answer is two words (or one word articulating naturally into two parts), and the wordplay just defines … Read more >>

Independent 7,644 by Tyrus (Saturday Prize Puzzle, 16/04/11)

April 23, 2011 at 9:06 am by Simon Harding

A strange one this. Certainly very tough, and I found it hard to get any momentum going. Spotting the theme late didn’t help, of course. In fact, there are elements of it that … Read more >>

Guardian Prize puzzle 25,298 by Paul

April 23, 2011 at 12:24 pmApril 23, 2011 at 12:00 am by PeeDee

Guardian Prize Puzzle 25,298 by Paul. I find Paul’s style becoming more and more like Araucaria as the time goes on, though thankfully without some of Araucaria’s idiosyncrasies. While writing this blog I initially … Read more >>

Independent 7,649 / Phi

April 27, 2011 at 4:09 amApril 22, 2011 at 2:04 pm by RatkojaRiku

Solving today’s crossword has made a not insignificant contribution to my vocabulary, both for new words in the language (such as at 6 and 15) and for words which have doubtless been around … Read more >>