Financial Times 14,682 / Aardvark
A decent challenge from Aardvark today with some well disguised definitions and pleasing surfaces, though I do have a slight quibble about part of the wordplay in 1dn. There was one less familiar, or … Read more >>
Day: 24 July 2014
Independent 8666 / Anax
We should have looked more closely at the number of the puzzle before we started – the last three digits would have warned us of how ‘beastly’ this crossword was to solve (and … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 26320 Puck
(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.) There’s a nina in the grid, … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 26320 with Picture Quiz
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) There’s a nina in the grid, which helped me in solving the last couple … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,673 – Falcon
Monday Prize Crossword/Jul 14 Time for another pleasant and not too demanding Falcon who, quite surprisingly, gave us his first full anagram only at 17d (immediately followed by a second and last one at … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,672 by Magwitch
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 12, 2014 This was my second Magwitch and I liked it as much as the first. My top clues are 21a (SCAR TISSUE), 3d (CURRY … Read more >>