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(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.) A straightforward, pleasant puzzle from Armonie, … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A straightforward, pleasant puzzle from Armonie, to whom thanks. Definitions are underlined in the … Read more >>
It’s a while since we blogged a Scorpion puzzle although they appear once a month. We normally prefer ghost themes but there were some enjoyable moments during the solve today. We were familiar … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26282. Perhaps I am on Brummie’s wavelength, because virtually every answer came readily on reading the clue. His tour of the outer reaches of the orchestra is novel. … Read more >>
Edit (10/6/14): the vacancies have now been filled.
New bloggers are required to cover the following puzzles:
Financial Times (Tuesday, either every week or as part of a rota for this day)
Guardian Quiptic (every fourth Monday)
Guardian Genius (once every six months)
Monday already and once more it’s Quixote, err hang on it’s Alchemi.
A fairly typical Rufus puzzle, with a number of neat anagrams and double definitions – though rather fewer cryptic definitions today. A couple of the double definitions are rather close in meaning but … Read more >>
I liked this Quiptic from Hectence. It wasn’t all completely straightforward to solve or parse, but once you had a foothold I think an improving solver could be expected to work through the … Read more >>
As I blog this Cyclops puzzle, I find myself in the company of some very unsavoury characters, not to mention deeply unpleasant military hardware. What a way to spend Monday morning (yes, I … Read more >>
Generally quite mid-paced in terms of difficulty, I found, though there are a couple left to explain this week, at 14 across and 20 down. *=anagram, []=dropped, <=reversed. Across 1 KEEL – LEEK<. … Read more >>
First things first, I must own up that this probably won’t be a vintage post, as I simply didn’t get the time to even begin this puzzle this week, hence a slightly tardy … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning to you all. Yet another fine puzzle from Everyman this week. I found a few tricky clues here so I did need a bit of help from Nick. Big … Read more >>
The usual solid workout from Azed. In his clue-setting competitions, there is an extraordinary preponderance of comp. anags. but in his own crosswords he has apparently only had one or at most two. Until now, and I don’t remember three before.
Definitions underlined.
A Saturday tussle with Anax – should be fun. As Anax puzzles go it was fairly standard fare – which is fun by the way. Some obvious answers occasionally but some lovely obscure … Read more >>
The title doesn’t give a lot to go on, but I think we all recognise the setter.