Guardian 25,782 – Orlando

This somehow didn’t feel like a typical Orlando while I was solving it, especially with the long answer at 5,11,18, which is more the sort of thing one expects from Araucaria or Paul. … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,141 – Crux

Monday Prize Crossword/Oct 22 Two weeks ago, Bamberger was very clear: “Bring back Crux!”. Well, here he is [the number of the puzzle being a palindrome!]  with, in my opinion, one of his gentler crosswords … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,140 by Cincinnus

Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 20, 2012 Here we have another brilliant puzzle from Cincinnus. My favourite clues are 18A (LAMA), 4D (DENOUNCE), 13D (LEGERDEMAIN) and 17D (AVENGERS). I also … Read more >>