Andrew

I started off on Everyman in The Observer, and began solving Azed while I was a student at Cambridge (reading maths) shortly after it started. I do the Guardian puzzle most days and others sporadically. In real life I work as a software developer (still in Cambridge), and for non-crossword recreation play the piano and am involved in amateur theatre.

Guardian 29,644 – Anto

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Straightforward Monday fare, but there are (for my taste) rather too many examples of the definition not grammatically matching the answer. Thanks to Anto for the puzzle.   Across 1 HAIL MARY Fellow, … Read more >>

Guardian 29,635 – Brummie

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Brummie has been very productive of late – this is his eighth puzzle this year. I found this mostly quite straightforward, though I didn’t help myself by carelessly misspelling 14ac. Thanks to Brummie. … Read more >>

Guardian 29,628 – Paul

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A fun puzzle with the multi-light answers and cross-references that we’ve come to expect. Thanks to Paul. A number of clues feature whimsical descriptions of animals in their wordplay. We have MOOER (cow), … Read more >>

Azed 2746

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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 >>

Guardian 29,612 – Paul

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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 >>