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There were certainly a large number of mistakes in this puzzle. Gaffe, Lapse, Cock-up, Boob, Faux pas, Blunder and Goof, to name but a few. I couldn’t find any actual error though. Edit: … Read more >>

We’re back to a relatively easy Eye crossword this time. Scrunch in the answers but this had far from crunchy clues. This was filled-in in short order with only a handful of answers … Read more >>

It’s Christmas and like the strange man at the back of the night bus Cyclops shows us a worryingly large monster. As expected, there is a theme and this is spelt out in the preamble: … Read more >>

Not what I would call an outstanding puzzle though there are some excellent surface readings in the clues I did the wrong thing by solving this crossword a week ago soon after the mag arrived, … Read more >>

This puzzle was not a hard as some Eye grids of late, till the last few – notably those <50% checked lights. Particularly fine smut in clue for 15A   Across 1 SKIMPY … Read more >>

Cyclops is on a run of quite tough Eye crosswords lately.  This is another that took me a fair while to solve. I had more than half the grid filled on the first pass, … Read more >>

This seemed tougher than many Eye grids of late. I certainly had trouble getting started – I read all the way down to 24A before finding the first answer, and after the “first … Read more >>

Cyclops includes a couple of topical references to the current Labour Party leadership contest (9/4) and has put Andy Burnham squarely in the centre ground at 15. I had a curious conversation with … Read more >>

Well over half this puzzle was filled-in by the end of the first pass.  I got going again with DISGRACED at 10 which I considered earlier but couldn’t see where the S came from, but … Read more >>