The Trafites

The Trafites. Lorraine: I have been doing Everyman crossword for over 21 years, and still have not won anything! I also attempt Saturday's Guardian, but more often than not to no avail! I work in the catering trade. I am qualified to 'A-Level' in chemistry and biology. Nick: I started solving crosswords many years ago, eventually progressing to the 'hard' barred type crosswords (Listener, Enigmatic Variations etc.), but due to time restraints now only do AZED and a few other crosswords (see below). My only claims to fame are having won a Telegraph pen for Enigmatic Variations no. 231 and having a puzzle published in 'The Crossword Club' magazine (as Skiron). My work is a really boring factory job after two years of unemployment. Together: Between us we are 100 years old (and the same age). We do a variety of other crosswords, mainly Private Eye (great laugh) and a lot of daily's and local paper crosswords and any other crosswords that pass our way in the boozer. Our crossword output is only surpassed by that of our beer consumption.

AZED No. 2,003 Plain

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Nick:  Fairly easy AZED this week – albeit with the usual Scottish words nobody has heard of 🙂 Legend to solution comments: * = anagram. < = word reversed. Across 4. Fool bagging … Read more >>

AZED No. 1,989 Plain

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Nick:  A perhaps more difficult AZED this week, due to the strange grid having two words per quarter connecting each ‘mini-grid’;  for me, this made it like four very small crosswords, with the … Read more >>