Financial Times no.13,893 by GOZO
A real wrong ‘un (or, if you prefer, curveball) from Gozo here. I think this is the first FT puzzle I’ve blogged that comes with special instructions; the theme may well have a … Read more >>
Day: 5 January 2012
Independent 7,870 / Monk
I looked through my past blogs this morning to see if I had blogged a Monk before, and to my surprise, since Monk has featured on my crosswording landscape for a very long … Read more >>
Guardian 25,524 / Puck
After the delightful Arachne yesterday, another welcome post-Christmas present to off-set the foul weather, in this quite challenging and entertaining puzzle from Puck. The characteristically witty and ingenious cluing provided a number of … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,886 / Dante – Prize Puzzle – 27 December 2011
I don’t blog Financial Times crosswords very often, so I haven’t encountered Dante before. As I solved the puzzle, I thought the cluing style was familiar with very smooth surfaces, lots of double … Read more >>
Guardian Christmas Prize No 25,514 by Araucaria
It was my privilege this year to solve and blog this puzzle whose theme was hinted at in the introduction: “Many of the clues are of a kind and may not be further … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,885 – Christmas Crossword by Gozo
When this puzzle eventually became available on-line on Boxing Day I thought “Oh good. I enjoy alphabetical jigsaws” so I proceeded to convert the pdf into a format where the font size was … Read more >>