Never knowingly undersolved
We have a standard crossword from Azed this week. For me, this was a puzzle of two halves. I made good progress on the right hand side but struggled quite … Read more >>
I had a very hard time getting a toehold on this week’s offering from Azed . . .
Some very easy clues in this month’s prize competition, but I have a problem in parsing a couple of others.
Quite an easy one on the Azed scale, helped by no fewer than four hidden answers. Thanks to Azed. Across 1 UPCATCH Cup brewed, chat freely to exchange latest news? (7)CUP* + … Read more >>
I found this rather difficult, and several held out for a long time. The left-hand answer to 12dn resolutely escapes parsing: I hope someone tells us how it works. The rather odd format … Read more >>
One misprint and one query in this week’s Azed.
We have a solid standard puzzle from Azed this week. This was a plain Azed puzzle with normal clues although there was a note that stated: “34 appears only, with … Read more >>
This week’s puzzle has quite a few clever surfaces, with some Chambers unicorns mixed in with some crossword chestnuts.
PLEASE READ
A couple of unsatisfactory parsings.
Please excuse a rather terse blog – I’ve been away and had to write it in a bit of a hurry. I hope anything I haven’t said is verifiable in Chambers. Thanks to … Read more >>
The usual display of words which are either completely unknown or have a sense that is hidden away in the depths of the entry in Chambers, but all of which seem to be explicable. How on earth Azed produces them without electronic aids (as I think is the case) always amazes me.
I think six of the clues are of the form ‘xxxx? yyyy’, an Azed characteristic. Usually (but not always) the xxxx is the definition.
Definitions in italics, underlined in crimson. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*, depending on whether the anagram indicator precedes or follows.
The first Carte Blanche for 18 months.
Azed 2671 is a plain puzzle I am defeated by the word play for CABLET at 4 down. In fact, I’m not a hundred percent sure of the definition. I … Read more >>
Solving this puzzle seemed a bit harder-going than some recent Plain offerings, and I went to bed with four in the SE still unsolved.