A quicker solve than expected from a Friday Nutmeg, with some very neat cluing and a few trickier bits of parsing. Favourites were 10ac, 15ac, 26ac, 5dn, and 20dn.
Month: May 2020
Financial Times 16,483 by BRADMAN
A typical Friday challenge from the Don. Thanks Bradman for the workout.
Independent 10,486 by Phi
This is the usual tidy and clear offering from Phi. OCTILLION defeated me until the bitter end but I more or less have it now. Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics. … Read more >>
Independent 10,485 by Knut
An enjoyable puzzle from Knut today. However, there are a couple of clues we are concerned about. Judi who appears in 17ac is Judi Dench but she does not spell her name with … Read more >>
Financial Times 16,482 by JASON
Jason got my grey cells working this morning.
Guardian 28,139 – Boatman
Quite a tricky one, as usual with Boatman, not helped by the unfriendly grid, with its almost isolated four sub-grids. There seems to be a bit of a theme of modern (usually business-related) … Read more >>
Financial Times 16,472 by Mudd
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 9, 2020
Independent 10,484 / Tees
Tees has produced our mid-week cruciverbal entertainment for this Wednesday. I actually found this to be a puzzle of two-halves: I made swift progress through the left-hand side of the grid, but then … Read more >>
Financial Times 16,481 by JULIUS
Entertaining to solve and blog as always. Thank you Julius. ACROSS 1 TAXI DRIVER One seen in rank Scorsese movie? (4,6) double defintion 7 CUBE Solid snooker player uses it potting black … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 28,138 by Qaos
A gentle puzzle with an “aard” to spot theme?
Financial Times 16,480 by HAMILTON
Hamilton. A different kind of fun.
Inquisitor 1646: Pocket Money by Shark
The rubric read: The corrections to misprints in 10 definitions spell out a relevant event. In one of the two thematic unclued entries, two checked cells contain multiple letters (entered vertically). Several answers … Read more >>
Independent 10483 / Radian
Radian is a fairly regular Tuesday setter in the Independent If it’s a Radian puzzle there is going to be a theme. I’ve blogged many Radians with a literary theme. … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 28,137 by Crucible
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28137. The keystone clue is 17A RHINO, used in other clues in the slang sense of money. At times, the puzzle seemed to be an exercise in … Read more >>
Guardian 28,136 / Vulcan
Vulcan starts the week with a typical Monday medley of charades, anagrams and double and cryptic [some more so than others] definitions. There are a couple of old favourites at 27ac and 7dn, … Read more >>