Beelzebub 1,260
Another solve of two halves for me, almost literally. I made steady progress in the pub on Sunday evening, but returned home with pretty much exactly 50% of the grid filled, in particular … Read more >>
Day: 4 May 2014
Azed 2186/over the top
Relatively gentle for an Azed (i.e. I solved it in about an hour which is fast for me). A couple of uncharacteristic errors — incorrect enumeration at 31A and bad anagram fodder at … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1262/Hypnos (27 April)
I thought this was a fine Hypnos puzzle in the expected IoS style – in other words, reasonably tractable. That said, I struggled in the SW corner for a good while, before 12dn … Read more >>
Everyman N° 3,525
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3525. Everyman is branching out – last week a Nina, here a mini-theme, if two Tolkien clues (and maybe in 12A a third, at a pinch) counts … Read more >>
Guardian Genius 130 by Qaos
The preamble to Genius 130 states: “Before being entered in the grid, six solutions must undergo 24 down 9, while another six must undergo 26 15. In the process only valid words may … Read more >>