A good old fashioned crossword from Magwitch. Sometimes setters seem to be falling over themselves to be novel and inventive (which of course is a good thing) but I also like getting the some quality plain puzzles to solve and blog too. I feel they get a bit overlooked. Thank you Magwitch.
Day: 20 May 2015
Guardian 26,576 – Paul
I usually don’t have too much trouble with Paul’s puzzles these days, but I found this one hard to get started on, and then hard to finish. Looking back, there’s nothing particularly obscure, … Read more >>
Independent 8922 / Dac
Dac’s strength lies in his very subtle misdirection through the surface reading of his clues. The wordplay in Dac’s clues is very rarely complex although there were a couple of … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1385: ICE by Schadenfreude
The sight of the name Schadenfreude tends to strike fear into the mind of a blogger when he or she first sees it as the setter of puzzle to be blogged, but there is … Read more >>