Guardian Cryptic 26147 Pasquale
Quite a straightforward puzzle, with just a little more time required for parsing a couple. Thanks to Pasquale. There is a pair of twin answers which seemed to promise a theme, but it fizzled … Read more >>
Day: 3 January 2014
Independent 8,483 by Eimi (Saturday Prize Puzzle, 21/12/13)
An enjoyable and quite manageable Saturday outing from Eimi, which brightened up another train journey in a most welcome manner. There’s a topical Nina in there too. Look away now if you want … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,510 by BRADMAN
Interesting grid from Bradman – quite a few clues with clever word plays and cluing. Quite enjoyed solving it – started off slowly but with the anagrams in, conveniently in all quadrants (3D, … Read more >>
Independent 8493 / Phi
Our first blog of the New Year and another lovely offering from Phi – the first of many in 2014 we hope! Joyce’s favourite clue is 4d for its briefness! When it came … Read more >>
Guardian Christmas Special No 26,137 by Maskarade
The setter of this year’s Guardian Christmas special is Maskarade, who does of course have a hard act to follow, the Christmas slot traditionally being allocated to Araucaria (I was fortunate also to … Read more >>