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Day: 7 January 2024
Financial Times Sunday No.28 – World by Gaff
The first World puzzle of 2024! Find it on the FT website to download and print or solve online, or via the smartphone app.
Everyman 4,028
The standard of these clues seems to me to be pretty high nowadays. Where I take issue with Everyman is in his use of question marks: he doesn’t always use them when he should, and he sometimes uses them pointlessly. There are several clues where the answer is a complete anagram of words in the clue. Very clever, but is the device overused? 3dn and 12dn are I think the pair, in that one begins with ‘Old’ and the other with ‘New’. 1dn is the self-referential clue and 22dn is the first letters clue.
Definitions underlined in crimson. Indicators (hidden, homophone, anagram, reversal etc.) in italics. Anagrams shown (like this)* or *(like this) [yes you’re right of course, Tony Collman@27]. Link-words in green.
Independent on Sunday 1,767 by Mog
Mog returns, not done too many by him.
Azed 2689
This is the final Azed of 2023 with the usual mix of known and lesser know entries. I know this blog precedes the blog for the Spoonerism Competition Puzzle Azed 2688, … Read more >>