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I don’t I’m ever going to be a fan of Otterden’s puzzles, so I’ll be brief. A few very easy anagrams to get us started, a nice couple of the subtractive anagrams that … Read more >>

I got off to a flying start with most of the top half going in quite quickly and thought that this one was going to be easy by Vlad’s standards. However I was … Read more >>

This has been one of those weekends when my  weekday and monthly Prize blogs coincide, so this is the third blog in a row from me and I’m prompted to say yet again … Read more >>

I spent a rather uneasy week after the S and B gathering at Macclesfield: when I told Maskarade that I would be blogging his Bank Holiday special, he chortled and told me with, … Read more >>

I approached this puzzle rather nervously, in view of the date, as Imogen puzzles can be tricky at the best of times. As it turned out, there was no hidden trickery, unless it’s … Read more >>

A very ingenious construction from Picaroon, where the word “play” (or a variant) occurs in every single clue, used in a variety of ways. I found this in the Goldilocks zone of difficulty … Read more >>

I have to admit that, due to the site problems I found when I got up this morning, I didn’t actually solve this one, instead reverting to the ‘reveal all’ option due to … Read more >>

A fun puzzle from Picaroon, and not very taxing My favourite clue was 11a AN IDEAL HUSBAND, I think. Across 1. How poet’s day starts, absorbing French from novel (6) MODERN MORN = … Read more >>