A tough workout from Monk today…
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Cyclops 740 – Annexation Plebiscite
Cyclops doing what Cyclops does…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,907 by Vlad (5 November 2022)
It’s a Vlad Saturday Prize puzzle, and the first word of the first clue is ‘Impale…’! Did anyone get skewered by this puzzle?…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1563: Belief Systems by Serpent
I was double-Serpented on the weekend of the York get-together, with his Indy puzzle to blog on the Saturday, and then this EV on the Sunday…if I had a BELIEF SYSTEM that included previous lives, I would suspect I had done something wrong in one of them!
Guardian Genius 232 by Pasquale
A second Genius of the year from the ubiquitous and prolific Don, after number 225 back in March…
Amoeba S&B 2022 Puzzle
I bumped into Amoeba at the York S&B event last weekend…
Independent 11,247 by Serpent (Saturday Puzzle 29 October 2022)
It’s been nearly three years since I had a Saturday Serpent to blog…too long, but ‘them’s the breaks’ in the Indy Saturday blogging schedule…anyway, there is usually something devious going on with a Serpent puzzle…
Cyclops 738 – Accursed Assets
Cyclops is on good form this week – and doesn’t seem to have been overtaken by the fast-moving events of the last week or so…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,883 by Paul (8 October 2022)
Paul in mercurial multi-linkage mode this Saturday Prize puzzle, with no fewer than four linked pairs of answers, and a triple-link…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1559: Save by Vismut
Is Vismut referring to the current cost-of-living crisis, and urging us to try and SAVE a few pennies?…
Independent 11,217 by Knut (Saturday Puzzle 24 September 2022)
Some nice stuff from Knut today…with a couple of obscure (for me) references that needed a bit of e-research…
Cyclops 736 – Fake Principles
I can imagine Cyclops, along with many other setters, is having to rummage through his standard references and update/delete a few items…and recent events may have overtaken the normal cadence of the setting/editing/publication cycle…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,859 by Picaroon (10 September 2022)
Picaroon provides this week’s Prize challenge…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1555: The Rules Of The Game by Ifor
The RULES OF THE GAME for the EV series seem to have changed, with it disappearing from the online Telegraph puzzle site and becoming a ‘paper-only’ puzzle…I hope most of you were still able to get your fix…
Cyclops 734 – Electoral Donkey
By my reckoning, Cyclops only has one more puzzle after this to use up all his BoJo references, before he has to switch to either LiTr or RiSu… (I hope their marketing people are working on better memes than those!…)