More geographically based cruciverbal fun. Find it to solve online or download and print at ft.com/crossword, or via the FT smartphone app.
Day: 5 January 2025
Guardian Quiptic 1,311/Picaroon
Picaroon has become quite the regular across all the Guardian crossword offerings, and it’s always a pleasure to blog one of his Quiptics. This one is well-judged as always, I think. Abbreviations cd … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,741 Plain
Sorry this blog's a few hours later than normal.
Independent on Sunday 1,819 by Filbert
Filbert gets our new year of Sunday puzzles going
Everyman 4,080 by Everyman
A nice crossword from Everyman. The clues are neat, often imaginative, and not tortuous, as they have sometimes been.
Azed 2740 – ‘Christmas Playfair’
Several Azed bloggers, myself included, have commented that the appearance of a Playfair puzzle is a scary prospect, as it involved both cold-solving the italicised clues, and deducing the codeword from the answers and the crossing letters.
Genius 258 set by Kite
Kite sets the last Genius challenge of 2024.
The preamble says:
Related features are omitted from wordplay in half the clues. Wordplay in other clues indicates an extra letter in each. The additional letters can be arranged to identify the related features.