Another Everyman that caused me a few problems.
Day: 2 August 2015
Independent on Sunday 1,327 by Kairos
It looks like the IoS rota has been shaken up a little, as I get to do battle with a third setter in as many posts, after months of poor old Poins being … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1325
Ah, that’s better! Plenty of unfamiliar words unlike the last two Beelzebubs I have blogged. More of a challenge and therefore much more enjoyable. Plenty of easy ‘entry’ clues to get a foothold … Read more >>
Guardian Genius No 145 by Picaroon
An apparently anonymous puzzle for July, offering an unusual twist on a familiar device. As Gaufrid pointed out to me, the identity of the setter was in fact available by doing an archive search, but not on the page where the puzzle itself was to be found.
AZED 2,251
After the complications of the milestone crossword last week Azed returns to something more straightforward. His grids are really outstanding: nearly every time he has words that straddle the grid — in this case four of them — and that must be hard enough before he even starts to fit in the shorter words. And he does it all by hand, which is quite amazing.
Definitions in italics.