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Day: 17 December 2016

Guardian Prize 27,064 by Brendan

Sun December 18, 2016 at 10:45 pmSat December 17, 2016 at 9:10 am by PeeDee

Sorry this is late, I wrote this up a week ago but forgot to put it live.  I can’t remember much about it now, except that I enjoyed solving and blogging.  Thanks Brendan.

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Categories Guardian 34 Comments

Independent 9416 / Klingsor

Sat December 17, 2016 at 8:18 am by Bertandjoyce

As anticipated, this was an enjoyable challenge from Klingsor today. Some excellent surfaces caused a fair amount of head-scratching over the parsing of several clues – 23a and 26a in particular. We had … Read more >>

Categories Independent 5 Comments

Enigmatic Variations No.1255 – The Main Point by Chalicea

Mon December 19, 2016 at 9:34 amSat December 17, 2016 at 12:01 am by Mister Sting

The grid is a graphic representation of a ’35 across’ (4). There’s a barred-off cell in the centre of the grid that has to be filled in, and a message composed of extra letters in the wordplay. There’s also a strong hint that we might have to draw a line of some sort.

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