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(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) This was a bit of a challenge, especially the upper half, but I did … Read more >>
A new setter for me, I think, and an excellent puzzle. The handful of gimmes were offset by some superbly sly clueing and inventive definitions elsewhere. No complaints from me (only a plea … Read more >>
eXternal has given us plenty to get our teeth into this Thursday morning. I found this puzzle exceptionally difficult to get into, and for a long time I had solved only one clue, … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26386.
Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 29 After a string of Dantes, Cruxes and Falcons it was nice to have this setter for a change. No Mudd without bums or buttocks (and so it was) but the … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of 27 September, 2014 Here’s another new setter in our Weekend space. Welcome, Goliath. I had a bit of a struggle completing this puzzle with some clues … Read more >>
A very enjoyable puzzle from Monk in which he reveals his easy side.
Seeing Tramp’s name under the puzzle is guaranteed to brighten up a dull morning! I think the gloomy weather had dulled my brain somewhat: I was aware from the beginning that there were … Read more >>
A fairly standard puzzle from Dac today with his usual elegant clue writing. There were a significant number of entries with consecutive double letters. I counted ten in all, six … Read more >>
This puzzle by Radler had a fairly short preamble, as follows: "The title alludes to the eight unclued themed solutions. Only one is from eight, and nine’s too many for the theme. Seven … Read more >>
A typically neat and pleasant offering from Punk today. It is themed around 11dn, which is to some extent my time, but I still needed Google to explain many of the answers. What … Read more >>
Easy breezy puzzle.
Great stuff from Paul…
A message from John H.
I’m sure to have missed people out or to have left out special dietary needs. Please would you check the relevant list(s) below, and advise me of any such omissions or inaccuracies. I can easily swap you from list to list.
The mysterious Beale returns to the Quiptic slot this week with an enjoyable puzzle that may cause a little head-scratching in places.
I say ‘mysterious’ because the profile on the Guardian site informs us only that ‘Beale is a crossword setter’. The Crossword Who’s Who on the Best for Puzzles site is similarly coy, telling us only that ‘Beale is a setter of Quiptic crosswords’. I never came top of my class at school but I think I knew that already. Perhaps Quiptic regulars know more.