Independent 11,927 / Knut
Knut has provided the last puzzle of 2024, on what is Tuesday, so theme day, and we are certainly going out in style, at least cruciverbally-speaking. As I solved and then blogged this … Read more >>
Month: December 2024
Guardian 29,579 / Paul
Paul rounds off the year in party mood, with a fun puzzle, which I enjoyed solving. There were some tricky bits of parsing but also several straightforward charades to get / keep things … Read more >>
Financial Times 17,936 by STEERPIKE
I got through about two-thirds of this fine puzzle from Steerpike before I really started getting bogged down, . . .
Financial Times 17,935 by AARDVARK
AARDVARK kicks off the week…
Independent 11,926 by Gila
Another brilliant and enjoyable crossword from Gila.
Guardian Cryptic 29,578 by Vulcan
A nice puzzle with neat cluing – I especially liked 13ac, 14ac, 30ac, and 1dn. Thanks to Vulcan
Financial Times 17,934 by Julius
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of December 28, 2024
Enigmatic Variations 1673 No Prize by Chalicea
A merry Christmas to all – hopefully the new year may bring some peace to the world. I suspect there’s no prize for guessing the areas where it is needed most and I … Read more >>
Azed 2740 – no blog yet
The Azed Christmas puzzle has a stated closing date of 29th December. This is unusual in two ways: first by being a Sunday, and secondly by not giving an extra week, as is … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1,818 by Eccles
The puzzle is available to solve online or download here.
Financial Times Sunday 73 – News of the Year by Buccaneer
A round-up of events of 2024 in crossword form. Find it to solve online or download and print at ft.com/crossword, or via the FT smartphone app.
Guardian Quiptic 1310 Anto
Happy New Year to one and all! Thank you to Anto. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Fire that awful person taking pictures (3,5) ART THIEF : Anagram of(… awful) FIRE … Read more >>
Financial Times 17,933 Jumbo by BUCCANEER
This grid is chock-full of the witty and precise clues that I have come to expect from Buccaneer. I nominate 55A for Clue of the Year. I hope that I have solved and parsed everything satisfactorily.
The grid with the clue previously missing from the online publication appears here: FT 17,933 revised
Everyman 4,079 by Everyman
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4079.