Difficult to solve and difficult to blog. Just plain difficult really. There are a couple of solutions that I still can’t explain even after a protracted search. Thank you Io for the mental workout and another chastening experience!
Day: 1 June 2016
Guardian Cryptic 26,899 by Screw
Struggled to finish this, with several left unparsed until the end – I still can’t work out 16dn (Edit: thanks PGreen). Favourites 13ac and 8dn. Thanks, Screw.
Independent 9245 / Dac
What can we say? Another excellent Dac, which for some reason we found slightly tougher than normal. As usual, excellent surfaces, with an ingenious definition at 1d. We were delighted that our favourite … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1439: Evolution by Kruger
Preamble: Each clue contains either a single letter misprint in the definition or wordplay leading to an extra or missing letter (equal numbers of each). In clue order, the correct/extra/missing letters give an … Read more >>