Cyclops seems to have some fundamental things on his mind, this fortnight…
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Enigmatic Variations No. 1655: Assertion by Skylark
ASSERTION anagrammatises to ‘arsonites’, ‘notarises’, ‘rosinates’ and ‘senoritas’…which one is Senorita Skylark maybe leading us towards?…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 29,458 by Picaroon (10 August 2024)
My fourth Picaroon Prize Puzzle blog of 2024…I took a bit of a wrong turn at the start, but it didn’t make a ‘material’ difference to the end result…
Cyclops 784 – Gymnast Stiffy
This fortnight’s title alludes to the, maybe apocryphal, story/video doing the e-rounds of a pole-vaulter who successfully negotiated the bar on his way up but then dislodged it on the way down with his…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1651: Upwardly Mobile By Luxor
After ‘Death on the Nile‘ two weeks ago, we have moved up to Luxor…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 29,434 by Picaroon (13 July 2024)
My three-ish monthly grapple with Picaroon on a Saturday prize slot…blooming hell, what do we have here?…
Cyclops 782 – Tory cul-de-sac
Cyclops has presumably had to do some pretty nifty footwork during a six-week election campaign…and is probably feverishly working away at some new names, with a new political complexion to the government…and binning a load of his bank of clues relating to the outgoing administration…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1647: Happy Ending by Kcit
The phrase ‘HAPPY ENDING’ can have several meanings…at least one of them being not very salubrious – let’s hope Kcit keeps it clean!…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 29,410 by Brockwell (15 June 2024)
Brockwell has become a fairly regular Grauniad setter, with eight puzzles since his debut last April…and most (all?) of them have contained a theme of some sort…
Cyclops 780 – Ignorant Scaremongering
Cyclops might have been caught a bit off guard by the announcement of the General Election, given setting lead times and the fortnightly publication cadence, but he seems to have hit one nail on the head…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1643: Career by Ifor
I made a flying start to this puzzle, but then crashed and burned a bit…! What sort of CAREER is Ifor referring to?…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 29,386 by Brendan (18 May 2024)
Advance warning – this week’s blog is full of mistakes…but don’t blame me!…
Cyclops 778 – Republican Convict
Cyclops seems to be putting a prediction out there this fortnight…
Financial Times (Jumbo) 17,725 by Julius
My first blog of an FT puzzle – it seems they put out an extra cryptic last weekend, a 23×23 Jumbo, presumably for all that extra time people would have on their hands with the Bank Holiday! The regular FT blogger couldn’t fit this into his schedule, so he put it out to tender…
Guardian Genius 250 by Soup
“More Soup, vicar?” No sooner had I finished blogging his recent Saturday Grauniad Prize puzzle than I got a second helping, with this Genius…not that I am complaining, I could cope with Soup for starter, main and dessert, if the opportunity arose!