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Pan is long-term setter of the Quiptic, and he/she has produced here a well-constructed Quiptic with clear cluing that would perfectly suit improving solvers. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd … Read more >>
An absorbing puzzle with an excellent variety of clues.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27263.
Sunday morning and time to blog the Everyman over the noise of screaming grandchildren.
A plain Azed puzzle for us this time This was a fairly standard Azed puzzle with precise cluing. The format of the clues is rarely different from those you find … Read more >>
This would be a good puzzle for a lazy Sunday breakfast or lunch. Sadly I no longer get to solve them on Sunday mornings any more as I forgot once too often, so now I have to solve and write them up earlier in the week, which may be efficient but misses the point somewhat. Thank you Peter.
As July comes to a close, a puzzle from Serpent to ease the misery of The British summer. I’m really starting to enjoy Serpent’s cluing – precise but with a little doubt thrown … Read more >>
Well, on the scale of ‘Fifty Shades of EV’, this was a masochistic 40-plus for your correspondent…Kruger exhorted us to ‘GO FOR IT!’, but I staggered across the line like a marathon runner … Read more >>
I wasn’t getting anywhere with this, so I put it aside and opened the rather nice bottle of red wine given to us by a French couple in whose house we were staying last week. An hour later I was absolutely whizzing through the puzzle. I believe this is known in the trade as “getting on your setter’s wavelength”. Thanks Paul, for the puzzle and for the excuse.
Phi has given us a puzzle today with lots of the types of clue I enjoy solving. There are a lot of clues where the wordplay has many parts. That … Read more >>
An easy offering from BRADMAN today, thanks to whom for a brisk workout.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27261.
That was hard work. Quite apart from the fact that many of the clues referred to a not particularly easy answer and so there was an extra slowness at the start, it was difficult. Or so I thought at the time.
But it was good.
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First of all, my thanks to Gaufrid for standing in for me last week, especially on what turned out to be not a good day for him. I think this must be one … Read more >>
Sleuth provides the FT challenge this Thursday morning.