Everyman 3,797

As the preamble says, this is an anniversary puzzle. And with lots of other coverage of the same anniversary in the last week or so, it’s not hard to guess the subject.

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Everyman 3,794/30 June

Another enjoyable puzzle from Everyman, but one where I suspect less experienced solvers will be saying ‘too hard’. I could be wrong.         Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>

Everyman 3,791

The Observer crossword from June 9, 2019

This Everyman puzzle took me an hour to finish, which was about the same amount of time that I spent on the Guardian’s Prize from Paul.
Perhaps, I wasn’t in the right mindset but my conclusion must be ‘this was quite hard’.

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Everyman 3,787

The Observer crossword from May 12, 2019

The good news is that this crossword had a similar feel as recent Everyman crosswords and, therefore, it looks like some consistency has set in.
A doable puzzle with quite a few anagrams to make life easier for beginning solvers.

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Everyman 3,786/5 May

The new setter of the Everyman series kindly dropped into last week’s blog to introduce him/herself and indicate that there would be from now on one setter of the weekly puzzle that we … Read more >>

Everyman 3,783

The Observer crossword from April 14, 2019

After reading some of the comments in last week’s Everyman blog, I thought “let’s prepare myself for the worst”. But, actually, I thought this was a rather pleasant crossword.

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