A plain puzzle for this month’s competition.
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Azed 2719
A plain puzzle from Azed this week. I got off to a reasonable start with this puzzle with a few of the early downs which led to me to SPLASH … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,718 Plain
Apart from a couple of quibbles noted below, I found this pretty straightforward.
Azed No. 2,717 Plain
A plain puzzle from Azed.
Azed 2716 – Spoonerisms
The Spoonerism puzzle is a format invented by Azed that crops up every year or so. There hasn’t been one under the exact title since number 2551 in May 2021, but the last … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,715 Plain
The actual construction of Azed clues is often fairly simple.
Azed No. 2,714 – Plain
A plain puzzle that raised my eyebrows in a couple of places.
Azed 2713
We have a standard puzzle from Azed, no competition clues and no quirky cluing devices. That said, I reckoned there were more new words for me than in the majority … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,712 Plain
The four long clues around the perimeter of the grid provided immediate lift-off for the solution of this week’s Azed.
Azed No. 2,711 Plain – Competition Puzzle
A fairly standard Azed completition puzzle.
Azed 2710
Another high-quality puzzle to exercise our Sunday brains, though I do have a query about 4 down. Thanks to Azed. Across 1 BRITPOP Trip freely with disco music around – such as … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,709 Plain
Most of this was quite routine and the usual satisfactory product, but one or two gave me a lot of trouble. One was a complete mystery until I looked up one of the words, which was new to me. I’m still unsure about one of the others and would welcome explanations, since mine is a bit tenuous.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagrams shown (like this)* or *(like this), depending on where the indicator (in italics) is.
Azed No. 2,708 Plain
A 13 x 11 grid this week.
Azed 2707
Azed gives us a plain competition puzzle this week where solvers are asked to write a clue for the entry at 5 down. This was a typical Azed crossword with … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,706 – Plain
Assuming that I have parsed everything correctly, I found this Azed less daunting than some of the recent offerings.