AZED 2,470 Plain

What is there left to say? Thank you Azed for yet another interesting puzzle. Apologies for the late arrival of the blog, I messed up with the scheduled publish time. ACROSS 1 OLD-FOGEYISH … Read more >>

Guardian 27,955 / Puck

It’s always good to see Puck’s name on a puzzle but, having missed the Irish racecourses in his last one, I was perhaps a bit more nervous than usual in setting out on … Read more >>

Guardian Cryptic 27,954 by Paul

A tricky, slow solve, with a lot of parsing done after the grid was filled – and some parsing only after the rest of the blog was finished. Favourites were 11ac for the surface, 23ac, 26/9, 5dn, and 18dn. Thanks to Paul for the challenge.

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Financial Times 16,299 by JULIUS

Always good to see Julius’s name at the top. Thank you Julius. A fruit and nut puzzle. ACROSS 1 POMEGRANATE Fruit rock from England hawked in a Sydney market? (11) sounds like “pommy … Read more >>