beermagnet

Solving was one of those times when a couple of hasty wrong answers put the kibosh on a quick solve. At the first pass I only had gaps at the top left and … Read more >>

Don’t let your pencil get too frenzied!  Make sure your X is fully within the appropriate box when you vote on Thursday.  Do not make it into an hourglass and surround it with … Read more >>

One of those where the last one in was the first one read and failed to solve, several times: 1A  where I got totally fixated that the definition was some kind of egg … Read more >>

Quite a quick solve again. Only half a dozen gaps after the first pass mostly in the top right where 5A Fillip and 11A Scrutineer gave me the most trouble.  All the wordplay … Read more >>

I thought this was going to be over too soon. I swept through most of the top half after getting 1a and 4 with ease delivering all those first letters, (I wondered about … Read more >>

Headmistress has written quite a lot – 585 pages I hear. So I suppose we should be thankful this annual giant puzzle is still only 27×27 instead of something much larger. The puzzle … Read more >>

Private Eye snuck out a 1-week issue so by now most of you will be stuck into the Christmas monster.  I’m going to start just as soon as I’ve posted this blog. Solving: … Read more >>

Because the Eye crossword allows us the luxury of over a week to solve it I often wait till the mood takes me. This time I felt like solving it straight away … … Read more >>

During the first half of solving this there seemed to be a large number of anagrams .  Then after the half-time orange, I seemed to find charade after charade It was just the … Read more >>