The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27083.
Month: January 2017
AZED 2,324/CELEBRATIONS
So playfair puzzles aren’t my favourite cup of tea. Fortunately, my colleague Frank Yellin doesn’t mind them and has a bunch of python code to prove it (we are both Jewish so had plenty of time on our hands this week). So he helped me no end figuring out the actual magic square — which this time had no Q rather than the more usual I/J merging (to produce 25 letters of the alphabet in a 5×5 grid).
Inquisitor index: 2017
Puzzles 1472 – 1523
It’s 2017!
Well, we have come to the start of another year (where did the last one go, it only seems like a few months since I was last writing one of these posts!). I … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1401/Math
Happy New Year! There we go, I’ve used my one exclamation mark for 2017. This was an interesting, and tough, puzzle to start us off in the Sindy for 2017. Sherlock appears to … Read more >>
Guardian Genius 162 / Enigmatist
The preamble states: The puzzle is a tribute to two people whose names appear in the completed grid. (There is a numerical link between them.) X and two of his products are in a … Read more >>