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Handel Morning all. An impressive grid this week with no fewer than eight 15-letter answers. These long answers were mostly presented as anagrams, and unpicking them all took some time. Our pick of the … Read more >>
Morning all. An enjoyable selection of clues here, with nothing to whinge about as far as we can tell. Seven down is the pick of the bunch IOHOs, a good example of the … Read more >>
A Monday and no Rufus! A good mixture of clues from Logodaedalus made this an enjoyable start to the week, and there were no naval references to throw us, which made a change. … Read more >>
Morning all, and welcome to our new Sunday slot. This was the usual mixture of clue types and for the most part went in fairly quickly. However, 1dn has defeated us – I’m … Read more >>
A somewhat unusual puzzle this week with one very long answer filling many of the across spaces. We didn’t know the saying, so had to work it out from the anagram, which was … Read more >>
We are proud to say that we raced through this one, and although we didn’t time ourselves, we had only drunk half of our pints before finishing it! We really enjoyed this one, … Read more >>
Good morning all. A departure from the usual IoS fare this week, with a themed offering. The fact that we’d not encountered a themed IoS before meant that we were rather slow off … Read more >>
The usual bits and pieces from Rufus. A couple of o’er hasty entries slowed us down a bit, but overall this was much as one expects. ACROSS 7. FOR BORE ‘a tedious man’ … Read more >>
Another gentle puzzle that was well suited to a pub-based solve. Didn’t know ‘shooting brake’ but the anagram was clear enough and didn’t suggest anything else. Always nice to learn something from a … Read more >>
An unusually easy outing this week, finished in something like 15 minutes, which is about as quick as we get. ACROSS 6. BLOODSTONE (old bones)* around ‘to’ 9. R AID 10. PA ELLA … Read more >>
Morning campers! An enjoyable if none too taxing puzzle today. Our favourites for today were 17ac and 10d for their amusing surfaces. ACROSS 1. GO P HER 4. ICE S(HE)ET 9. NIC(H)E 10. … Read more >>
Our first blog as husband and wife, completed in true Handel style, with a pint of ale in Stockwell’s uncharacteristically sophisticated pub The Canton Arms. ACROSS 4. HE(LP)ED 7. splenDID ACT I Contrived … Read more >>
A pleasant offering this week, very much at the easier end of the scale, we felt. 8dn (pastern) was the only real stumbling block, mainly because we struggled to get ‘postern’ out of … Read more >>
An easier offering this week than last, with the usual good mixture of clue types. Our favourite was 20 across, which gave us a lovely penny-dropping moment on this hungover Sunday. ACROSS 1. … Read more >>
This was quite a tough one for a before-work solve, especially as our knowledge of golf clubs is limited to those mentioned by Bertie Wooster, so there was a good deal of new … Read more >>