2015 – Page 59 – Fifteensquared

Independent 8913 by Morph (Saturday Prize Puzzle 9 May 2015)

Sat May 16, 2015 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

Enjoyable – and topical? – fare from Morph for this week’s Prize puzzle… At the end of a 9A TUMULT-uous week in British politics, there seemed to be subliminal references all over this. … Read more >>

Enigmatic Variations No. 1172: Time by Augeas

Sat May 16, 2015 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

To paraphrase the Monty Python ‘Australian Wine’ sketch (and I may have done this before, so apologies in advance): ‘…this is not a crossword for solving, this is a crossword for laying down … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,931 by REDSHANK

Fri May 15, 2015 at 8:33 am by Turbolegs

A delightful pleasant puzzle from a much welcome setter today. Redshank gives us a relatively easy challenge with appropriate sprinkles of innovative cluing and generally clean surfaces. A couple of clues caught my fancy, especially 24ac and 7d. Thanks to Redshank, who rounds off an incredible week for the FT aficionados.

Independent 8,918 / Phi

Fri August 23, 2019 at 9:40 amFri May 15, 2015 at 8:00 am by RatkojaRiku

Today saw my monthly Friday encounter with Phi. I found this to be a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle. I made steady progress through it from the start almost to the finish, faltering only in … Read more >>

Guardian 26,572 by Paul

Fri May 15, 2015 at 1:46 am by PeterO

The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26572.

Guardian 26,571 / Vlad

Thu May 14, 2015 at 9:35 am by Eileen

It’s a real treat for me to get Vlad’s second puzzle to blog. I’ve come to grief several times with his Tyrus puzzles in the Indy – he’s there today – so I … Read more >>

Independent 8917 / Tyrus

Thu May 14, 2015 at 8:48 amThu May 14, 2015 at 7:30 am by duncanshiell

Tyrus has given us a good challenge today with only one entry that I don’t remember coming across before. The one word that was new to me was ALAMEDA at … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,930 by LOROSO

Thu May 14, 2015 at 2:28 pmThu May 14, 2015 at 6:20 am by David and Linda

A curate’s egg. Our enjoyment was spoiled by what we saw as some very contrived answers necessitated by the special feature referred to in the rubric.

Financial Times 14,921 – Dante

Thu October 29, 2015 at 5:45 pmThu May 14, 2015 at 12:05 am by Sil

Monday Prize Crossword / May 4, 2015

One of Dante’s easier crosswords, I thought. Still not easy to finish it without obstacles. The combi 11ac/9d almost defeated me. Almost!

Financial Times 14,920 by Goliath

Sat May 16, 2015 at 4:53 pmThu May 14, 2015 at 12:01 am by Pete Maclean

Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 2, 2015 This was another tough one for me but it has a few sparkling clues topped by the brilliant &lit of 18d (LITERATO). Other … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,929 by Io

Thu May 14, 2015 at 8:36 amWed May 13, 2015 at 11:27 am by PeeDee

Cracking puzzle from Io. There were many of WTF? moments in this puzzle where I had no idea at all about what was going on. Thankfully it (mostly) became clear in the end. Overall this was pretty tough! Thanks Io .

There are still a a couple that I can’t quite get to the bottom of. Any help with the finishing touches appreciated.

Guardian 26,570 by Brummie

Wed May 13, 2015 at 9:59 am by manehi

Enjoyable but not too tough, with the left hand side going in very quickly. Favourites 3dn and 17dn. Thanks Brummie.

Independent 8,916 by Dac

Wed May 13, 2015 at 9:47 am by John

I am usually trying to write a clue in some clue-writing competition or other; and it is nearly always tortuous. In Dac’s case none of his clues are tortuous: they all seem to be perfectly natural, and they always have a simple and strong surface. Why it should be that the words Dac clues are so different from those that I try to clue is beyond me. Actually they’re not: it’s just that he is rather better at it than I am.

Definitions underlined.

Inquisitor 1384: Blowing by Chalicea

Wed May 13, 2015 at 12:01 am by HolyGhost

One week she’s the Listener setter, next Chalicea‘s providing the Inquisitor puzzle. Preamble: Groups of cells (49 in all), identified by corrections to misprints in the definition parts of 26 clues read … Read more >>

Guardian 26569 – Otterden

Tue May 19, 2015 at 9:08 amTue May 12, 2015 at 9:13 am by Andrew

A few nice clues here, including some ingenious “subtractive anagrams”, and a mini-theme around the answer to 25d … … but in general I’m afraid this confirms my opinion of Otterden’s puzzles as … Read more >>