Guardian 25781/Crucible
Peter O is down to do the blog today, but since he lives in New York, he no doubt has other things on his mind this morning. So I have stepped in as … Read more >>
Month: October 2012
Financial Times 14,149 by Loroso
Sorry for the lateness of this post, I nearly forgot it is my blogging day. We have not had a TV set in the house for years, so when I saw the theme … Read more >>
Independent 8127/Crosophile
As I, and also it seems several others, like, one can solve this straight, without having to concern ourselves with whatever Nina may be there. The clues are good and there is a … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1252: Easy Street by Kruger
I do tend to like Kruger‘s puzzles – no exception here. A pound sign ( £ ) appears in the central barred off cell of the grid. Hmm … Corrections to single-letter misprints in … Read more >>
Independent 8126 / Radian
We found this a really enjoyable, and not too difficult, Tuesday puzzle, with a ‘hidden’ theme that really only revealed itself as we followed up the connection between 20A/18A and 2D/7A. Whilst we had … Read more >>
Financial Times 14148 Gurney
An easy-going FT Tuesday, abound with anagrams and reversals – a warm-up for the more difficult ones later in the week? Thanks to Gurney. A pity there wasn’t a theme built around 17across. Definitions … Read more >>
Guardian 25,780 – Chifonie
I always lament the last Sunday of October, which brings back melancholic memories of my first winter in Brrrritain. Now, in my hot humid tropical paradise, I bemoan the waste of an hour … Read more >>
Independent 8125 by Quixote
Pleasing puzzle in the usual Quixote style, all accessible and clear, quite easy, I thought, solving time, 17 mins * = anagram ACROSS 1 SLEEPY lee in spy 4 RAMBLING ram b (born) … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 676/Moley
Moley has produced a sound enough Quiptic this morning, I think, although there were one or two bits of inelegant cluing in my opinion. And, embarrassingly for a Quiptic, there’s one where I … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 25779 Rufus
A standard Rufus with the usual dds, cds and anagrams, and I guess the surface of 7 across is the nautical reference. Thanks Rufus. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at … Read more >>
Private Eye/Cyclops 480 – Long to reign over us …
… and under us. As this grid is topped and tailed with Kate and Wills on the top and bottom, and in the middle row. All these had clues of the same kind … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1,183 by Glow-worm
Apologies for the tardy post, and thanks to Gaufrid for the welcome prod in the right direction! Quite a tough solve, this one, I thought, though to help us there’s a nice Battle … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1,181
This was an interesting solve. I started off very smoothly indeed, thinking this would be an “easy” week, but ground to a halt about halfway through, and eventually had to adopt a very … Read more >>
Everyman No. 3446 (21st October)
Lorraine: Good morning crossword solvers, I enjoyed this weeks offering tremendously, wizzed through it with no problems. Favourites this week were, 1, 3, 9, 14 and 17ac, 1, 6, 10(first in the grid) and … Read more >>
Azed 2107
As always with Azed, thoroughly sound clues and much wading through Chambers in a chase for words that one has never heard, frequently finding variant spellings and having to wade further still. As … Read more >>