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Rorschach is a setter who appears in the Independent less frequently than many others. Rorschach’s puzzles tend to generate quite a lot of comment. There was a lot going on … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Sep 21, 2015
It’s been a while since we had a Crux crossword but here he is again, with the inclusion of quite a few cryptic definitions.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 19, 2015 This seems a fairly typical Mudd with a good number of double definitions including my clue of the week 23a (STRIKER). My other … Read more >>
I enjoyed this. I thought this was a nice level of difficulty; the answers did not give themselves away, but it was not a fight to the death like some of the Wednesday puzzles can be (setters – you know who you are!). Thanks Wanderer.
Enjoyable, but a bit of a struggle…
As one always gets from Quixote, an utterly satisfactory, fairly easy but finally tricky, challenge. I went steadily and smoothly through this and then took a long time to finish it off with HABILIMENT, VICE and STELAE my last ones in.
Definitions are underlined.
I have a soft spot for Nutmeg‘s puzzles; typical clues are polished gems. Preamble: Down answers are entered with one letter out of place, that letter being moved to the shaded upper/lower … Read more >>
At the risk of repeating myself, I am still not warming to Otterden’s style. Although there are some nice ideas here, but there are just too many examples where, for me, the cryptic … Read more >>
Thanks Scorpion for a good Tuesday workout. We needed a search for our last one in – 23d and then kicked ourselves. Had we realised earlier that it was a pangram we … Read more >>
(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.) Thanks to Armonie, for an enjoyable … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Thanks to Armonie, for an enjoyable and relaxing puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the … Read more >>
Good morning, back to Rufus after last week’s unexpected Nutmeg appearance
() = abbreviation e.g. a(mpere) hom = homophone [] = letters removed I found the parsing of a few of these a bit of a struggle, but on reflection they are mostly reasonable … Read more >>
The lunar eclipse was awesome. Was this Quiptic awesome? Perhaps not, but I’m only your ‘umble blogger. I wouldn’t pay too much attention to my opinion of this puzzle, since I’ve been up … Read more >>
A much more challenging Cyclops than I have blogged of late, and perhaps more enjoyable for it. I will give 17d my accolade for clue of the fortnight, for its clever and misleading … Read more >>