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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.) Perhaps a tad more difficult than … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Perhaps a tad more difficult than previous offerings from Sayang, to whom thanks. Definitions … Read more >>
Moley has been setting Guardian Quiptic puzzles since 2000, so I think we could call her a regular. She has set us another good one today: not a write-in by any means, but … Read more >>
I usually recommend the Monday Indy to anyone who’s getting into the Dark Arts, but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this one. If I hadn’t been blogging this, I might have given up and … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26305. With the exception of 14D, which escapes me, Brendan has produced here a crossword which fits into the easy Monday slot without controversy, unless BANKSIA at 18D … Read more >>
It feels a bit as if Cyclops was when he compiled this — the divine Mr Farage and his ‘party’ make three appearances. For some reason, probably because my mind has been on … Read more >>
Quite a challenge this week, and browsing the list of answers, it’s not hard to see why. I made good steady progress at first, filling about two thirds of the grid unaided. A … Read more >>
Plenty to wrestle with this week, and whilst I haven’t counted, there seem to be a relatively high number of clues squeezed in. This took me two or three sittings, with 6 down … Read more >>
Nick: A game of two halves this week. The top half of the grid flew in, but then I ground to a halt on the bottom half, taking a few hours to complete it. … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning to you all, for the last time. A big thank you to Gaufrid and everyone involved in fifteen squared. A big thank you to all of you who follow the Everyman … Read more >>
I can usually finish a Genius puzzle in about an hour, 90 minutes at the outside, but this one took nearly a whole morning before the grid was filled, and I had to … Read more >>
A bit of a last minute rush with this, and apologies for maybe not doing it justice. I did the parsing below earlier in the week, but am now in the depths of Swaledale in … Read more >>
‘ordeal, horror, torment, torture, trial, calamity, agony, anguish, awful experience’.
That’s how Chambers describes a nightmare. Oh goody…
I made hard work of this one, but it was enjoyable work. Thanks Picaroon.
Phi continues to tease on Fridays Only 25 clues in the puzzle today which is at the low end of numbers of clues in a national daily. Of course, many of … Read more >>