A fairly basic challenge from the Don today with just a couple of clues providing some thoughtful moments in parsing.
Day: 8 December 2017
Guardian Cryptic 27375 Vlad
This wasn’t easy, and the last two solutions had to wait until the rest of the blog was complete. Thanks to Vlad. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 7 Each one discarded … Read more >>
Independent 9,721 by Phi
As always with Phi everything is pretty obvious once it’s done, but to begin with things were often difficult: he writes clues that are open to a number of different promising approaches. I was delayed for a long time by 21dn; I think my parsing is correct, but in this and one or two other cases no doubt I shall be corrected.