Skinny seems to be coinciding with my blog spot fairly regularly now and this was another high quality puzzle.
Month: February 2025
Guardian 29,614 – Vulcan
Thanks to Vulcan for a Monday quickie.
Financial Times 17,970 by Buccaneer
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 8, 2025
Quiptic 1,316 by Chandler
This week’s Quiptic is from Chandler and can be found here
Everyman 4,085/2 February
Another approachable offering from Everyman this week, with plenty of anagrams to get you going, as well as the ‘primarily’ clue. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* … Read more >>
Azed 2746
I found this mostly not to hard on the Azed scale, though a few clues held me up at the end, especially the crossing pair 30a and 22d. I have a couple of … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1824 Filbert
Thank you to Filbert. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Get cold feet crossing lake in total darkness (8) BLACKOUT : [BACK OUT](get cold feet/reverse one’s position on or commitment to … Read more >>
Listener No 4851, “loglog” by Botox
Botox is a collaboration between two long-standing Listener setters, Artix (who is pretty tough) and Shark (who is also pretty tough). Last year’s Listener dinner was held in Lincoln, and I bumped into … Read more >>
Independent 11,961 by Twin
Another puzzle to blog this week and this time we have a Twin. We also have today’s Inquisitor to solve and blog.
Quick Cryptic 45 by Maskarade
This is the forty-fifth Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords.
Guardian Prize 29,607 by Paul
A themed puzzle from Paul for this week’s Prize.
Independent 11,960 / Phi
Once again, Phi has brought a suite of mid-week puzzles to an end. I found this to be quite a challenging puzzle, towards the hard end of the Phi difficulty spectrum, with long … Read more >>
Guardian 29,612 – Paul
I didn’t seem to be on the right wavelength at all this morning so found this quite hard, though in retrospect almost everything seems reasonably straightforward, with the exception of one clue that … Read more >>
Financial Times 17,969 by XELA
A generally breezy challenge from XELA this Friday, save for a few clues here and there.