The weekly online only crossword from the Guardian found here
Day: 8 February 2026
Gemelo No. 23 – plain
Gemelo has again produced a nice crossword with some very good clues. I don’t think there will be any problem with his taking over fully from Azed in due course.
My guess is that anyone who does these crosswords will have a copy of Chambers to hand and so won’t need everything to be spelled out. In the parsing I have confined myself to explaining when the wordplay is not immediately clear.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*
Everyman 4,137/1 February
Another pleasing puzzle from Everyman for our Sunday morning entertainment.
Azed and the future
Bridgesong has the honour of blogging the last Azed monthly competition puzzle. Please take a moment to read his review in the following blog:
Independent on Sunday 1876 Filbert
Thank you to Filbert. Definitions are underlined in the clues.
Azed No. 2,776 – the end of an era
This is the first Azed puzzle to appear since the announcement last week of his retirement from the monthly clue-writing competition.