Was expecting to breeze through this after getting several of the longer clues almost immediately, but got held up in the top left corner…
Month: April 2014
Inquisitor 1329: Insert Cut by Augeas
This is Augeas’ third Inquisitor puzzle, but the first one that I have blogged. Holy Ghost blogged the previous two. We had a fairly short preamble this week – Seventeen … Read more >>
Independent 8,586 by Raich
My goodness I was lucky as a blogger. Yesterday I never did the Independent crossword, being away, but by all accounts it was difficult. Today’s offering from Raich was much more the sort of … Read more >>
Financial Times 14602 Dante
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) This was done in an unusual environment: … Read more >>
Financial Times 14602 with Picture Quiz
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) This was done in an unfamiliar environment: no electricity (and that includes the Internet) … Read more >>
Guardian 26,240 – Qaos
A nice mixture of clues from Qaos in this one, with some easy ones to get me going and others that took a bit of working out. I have quibbles about a couple … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 753 / Pan
Today was going to be Writinghawk’s final appearance as he will be leaving the country shortly and going to a location with poor/no internet access. However, it seems that something has prevented him … Read more >>
Independent 8585 by Anax
Other people will probably disagree, but I found this a fairly fiendish Anax puzzle. The structure of the grid with all the down clues in the top-half having only their second letters (which … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1,258
After several weeks of having to blog puzzles that had me wondering aloud whether I’d forgotten how to even solve them, this was a bit of a relief. This was my first unaided … Read more >>
Azed 2,184
Owing to a very busy week I’ve hardly had time to solve this puzzle – which I think was of above average difficulty, thanks to a high proportion of unfamiliar words – let … Read more >>
Everyman 3523/13 April
Another lovely Everyman, with plenty of anagrams to get us going, and some delightful but accessible clues all over the grid. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1,260 by Poins
Good stuff from Poins. Trickier than the previous IoS puzzle of his that I blogged.
Independent Saturday Prize Puzzle 8578 / Anax – 12th April 2014
We always look forward to solving and blogging an Anax, so it was with great anticipation that we sat down to tackle this one. Unfortunately, however, we felt it didn’t quite live up … Read more >>
Guardian Prize Puzzle 26,232 by Paul
This puzzle contained a combination of very easy clues with others which were really quite taxing.