This week’s 11 x 11 crossword from the Guardian, intended to teach cryptic crosswords, found here
Month: May 2025
Guardian Prize No 29,685 by Paul
Self-referential Paul crosswords like this got me hooked on cryptics, however many years ago now, but I think this is my first opportunity to blog one. Until the key word comes to light, they can be very tough to solve.
Financial Times 18,049 by GAFF
A proper headscratcher from GAFF this Friday.
Guardian 29690 / Vlad
It’s Vlad throwing down the challenge today …
Independent 12,038 by Phi
It’s Phiday again!
Independent 12,037 / Stamp
Stamp has provided today’s puzzle and is one of those setters whose work I have the least experience of solving and blogging.
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 29,689 by Kite
A nice mix of clues and quite tricky in parts…
Financial Times 18,048 by STEERPIKE
Steerpike is this morning's setter.
Enigmatic Variations No. 1692: Anonymous by Ifor
Hello! This week it’s A-for-Anonymous …
Guardian 29,688 – Brockwell
Hello from Glencoe, where I’m spending what promises to be an unusually rain-free walking holiday. Fortunately I was not massacred by today’s very enjoyable puzzle, though a couple of bits of parsing had me stumped for a while. Thanks to Brockwell.
Independent 12036 / Eccles
A puzzle by Eccles in the Independent on Wednesday is now becoming a tradition.
Financial Times 18047 by NEO
I seldom blog Financial Times crosswords, so a NEO crossword is fairly new to me, but I believe he/she is a regular setter
The Lady’s setter setting up online
In the wake of the recent demise of what was Britain’s longest-running women’s magazine, The Lady, its former compiler Bert Baker has set up a Patreon page where ex-Lady folk and anyone else interested can subscribe to receive his puzzles each month.