Guardian

Vlad rounds off a good week of puzzles with a reasonably tough challenge. The four long perimeter clues helped, as usual, but there were some rather tricky bits of parsing and one I’m … Read more >>

Tramp’s usual tricky excellence with some very neat surfaces including 14ac. I particularly liked 6ac, 10ac, 11ac, 20a, 26ac, 6dn, 7dn, 22dn, and especially 4dn. Many thanks to Tramp for the puzzle.   … Read more >>

A very nice puzzle from Philistine: quite tricky in parts, but in a chewy kind of way that yielded to patient thought. A couple of references to fictional characters may have puzzled some. … Read more >>

A tribute to a late cruciverbalist author in today’s Guardian. COLIN DEXTER, the creator of Inspector MORSE and his sidekick LEWIS, would have been 90 today, so Pasquale has taken the opportunity to … Read more >>

The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28250. A fine puzzle, I would say a notch more difficult than many Monday offerings, but none the worse for that. ACROSS 1 EPITOME Brief extract from … Read more >>

More delightful cluemanship on display in this week’s puzzle in what used to be the prize slot. It’s always a pleasure to see Philistine’s name on a puzzle, and this one didn’t disappoint. … Read more >>

The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28248. Mostly on the simpler side – for a Nutmeg – but with a couple of definitely tricky parses. In all beautifully crafted. ACROSS 1 WARTHOG Wild … Read more >>

Well, this should have been the last day of my walking holiday in Mallorca but finding the name of one of my favourite setters above the puzzle I was down to blog went … Read more >>

An enjoyable and tricky solve, and I'm still not too sure about some of the parsing. Favourites were 10ac, 26ac, 6dn, and 13dn. Thanks to Boatman I also enjoyed the obvious theme in … Read more >>

I learned a couple of new words today, though both were gettable/guessable from their anagrams and some crossing letters. I started off quickly with this one but struggled a bit towards the end. … Read more >>

A gentle start to the week. Vulcan starts the week off with a straightforward Guardian offering, which was a bit too easy for my own personal taste, but still had some good clues … Read more >>

Another excellent Prize puzzle from Paul. Tricky to get started: the clues are not obscure but just not obvious, if you get what I mean. Thanks Paul   ACROSS 1 CALLIGRAPHIST A measure of … Read more >>

Thanks to Paul for the challenge. I was getting nowhere until 18 across was cracked. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Scientific solver admits he is perplexed by abbreviation of name … Read more >>