A slightly tricky challenge from Tees today.
Day: 17 August 2023
Financial Times 17,497 by SLORMGORM
Slormgorm makes an appearance in today’s FT.
Guardian Cryptic 29,151 by Picaroon
A difficult solve with tricky parsing, and many favourites including 10ac, 13ac, 26ac, 4dn, 5dn, 8dn, 15dn. Thanks to Picaroon for the puzzle
Enigmatic Variations No.1602 – Birds by Picadilly
“In eight clues a consecutive group of letters is to be removed, affecting the surface reading. These groups of letters can be rearranged as BIRDS, which are to be inserted into eight normally clued answers to form new words. Numbers in brackets refer to lengths of grid entries. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended; one entry is in Collins.”