It is always a treat to get to solve and blog a puzzle from Julius. Thank you Julius.
Day: 6 June 2018
Guardian Cryptic 27,528 by Imogen
Some neat cluing and nice surfaces…
Independent 9,874 by Knut
I was panicking a bit to begin with, because on scanning the clues I couldn’t do any of them for a while. Then a few fell and it was all easy enough, a pleasant offering from Knut today. There were one or two small things I was a bit uncomfortable with, as indicated below, but on the whole it was good.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
Inquisitor 1544: Tina Turner (Not) by Serpent
We get an Inquisitor puzzle from Serpent about twice a year, sometimes quite hard, often quite fun. Preamble: Four symmetrically-placed across clues have standard wordplay and definitions. In each of the remaining … Read more >>