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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.) An enjoyable puzzle that wasn’t much of … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An enjoyable puzzle that wasn’t much of a problem, thanks to Paul. Definitions are underlined … Read more >>
A fine crossword from Aardvark. Not a hard puzzle, but one that I would have finished much more quickly if there had not been so many obvious paths to the solution that turned into dead ends. I’m sure he does it on purpose! Thanks Aardvark.
As expected, Dac’s latest puzzle was waiting for me this Wednesday morning. At first, I thought that I was going to zip through this crossword, having solved a lot of clues in the … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26439.
Monday Prize Crossword/Dec 1 Despite some very easy clues (16ac, 6d, 21d, 25d) I must say that I found this quite a difficult puzzle that took me much longer than the average Dante/Rufus. … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 29, 2014 I don’t remember when I took to a new setter as quickly, as easily and as pleasantly as Redshank. Mind you he is … Read more >>
Welcome S.M.E.R.S.H. (unless you are someone else disguised as the Soviet CIA). What a crossword! I counted 18 answers (almost half!) which were words I’d never heard of or meanings I’d never imagined, … Read more >>
A slightly hurried post just to get back up to date. As it happens, I’ve made very few notes or scribbles, suggesting this one wasn’t expecially problematic. *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed. Across 1 SCOUTH … Read more >>
I count myself fortunate to have drawn a Puck puzzle to blog. There is some very inventive and whimsical cluing here, along with lovely story-telling surfaces, as usual with this setter, leading to … Read more >>
This is my first blog after a few wonderful weeks in New Zealand. The puzzle by Alchemi has provided a pleasant re-introduction to blogging. Thanks to Gaufrid for standing in for me … Read more >>
Very enjoyable puzzle …
I found this ultimately a little unsatisfactory because 16 and 15 across were rather obscure and your only recourse, if you didn’t know the words, was to guess. Apart from those two, it … Read more >>
I thought this one hit the spot nicely. You? Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed definitions are underlined Across … Read more >>
A pleasant Monday solve from Rufus. I liked 5ac, 13ac, 27ac and 7dn.