beermagnet

Blogger for every other Eye & occasional Saturday Indy. Dad/Grandad with a desire to swig amazing fluids. Currently running in a new hip. Still wrangling the bits'n'bytes to ensure there are virtual tins of beans on the fictitious shelves of Sainsburys data warehouse. WFH and missing the enforced hour of calm crosswording on the commute but there are advantages too.

Private Eye (Cyclops / 819) *Redacted redacted*

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I normally make a headline for the Eye blog using a couple of the answers from the puzzle but I have redacted them this time.
Not because they are tremendously rude – it’s an Eye puzzle so anything may appear – but because some of you reading this might not have tackled the puzzle yet.  You might not have realised the current issue very unusually is only for 1 week instead of the usual fortnight.

If so,  go away and try this puzzle before coming back here.  Link https://www.private-eye.co.uk/crossword

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Independent 12,219 by Bluebird

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Usually I enjoy a Bluebird puzzle, although they are often sneakily hard.

This one left me slightly empty.
I was fully expecting there to be a nice juicy hidden message in the perimeter unches – why else choose this grid design.  Instead it is just gobble-de-gook.
Similarly, there have been interesting themes, especially on a Saturday.  Again, I cannot see a theme here at all. (I do hope I’m proved wrong.)
All the while battling clues that are definitely on the hard side for me.

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