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A pleasing mixture of straightforward charades, insertions and anagrams, which hit the Quiptic spot for me. What did you beginners think? Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad … Read more >>
I enjoyed this very much. Thank you Gozo.
A highly entertaining puzzle from Qaos today,with lots of ingenious cluing, including innovative anagram indicators, and several smiles during the solve. In a Qaos puzzle, once the solving and parsing are done, there’s … Read more >>
Not too tricky after a slow start, with favourites 14ac and 24ac…
An entertaining puzzle from Puck, with several nice &lit clues. No theme that I can see, though I’m happy to be corrected. Thanks to Puck. Thanks to Simon S at comment 21 for … Read more >>
Today’s puzzle can be solved here.
A puzzle made much easier by the number of anagrams/partial anagreams (7) and double definitions (6). Thanks to Pasquale who makes a rare appearance in this slot. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27472.
Picaroon has set the March Guardian Genius puzzle The preamble was short and clear – "Several clues are consistently incomplete" I deduced the theme fairly quickly when I solved 14 … Read more >>
Four weeks ago, I wrote in my preamble to a Paul Prize puzzle blog, “Because I blog the Prize puzzle every four weeks and Paul seems to occupy the Prize slot every two … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27470.
A typically elegant and witty offering from Nutmeg – my thanks to her for an enjoyable puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9 Cut, but not polished, when suggested? (5-4) ROUGH-HEWN … Read more >>
Tricky, fun, and all perfectly fair – favourites were 18ac, 25ac, 27ac, 2dn, and 20dn. Thanks, Picaroon
Phew, that was hard! I’m not always the greatest fan of Boatman’s style, but despite the difficulties in this one I enjoyed it, and found it fairly clued, with some clever devices and … Read more >>
It would appear that the scheduled blogger is unable to be with us today so here is an analysis of the clues instead. Someone will have to help me out with 27dn and … Read more >>