Another straightforward plain puzzle from Azed this week.
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Azed 2737
It’s competition week for Azed, but it’s just a plain puzzle. No doubt there will be complex puzzles around Christmas and New Year. I found this more difficult than many … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,736 Plain
Apart from a couple of quibbles and one exceptionally clever clue, this solve was mostly straightforward.
Azed No. 2,735 Plain
A fairly straightforward Azed.
Azed 2734
Thanks to Azed for another quality puzzle. Across 1 GRAITH Scottish dress (old-fashioned) one kept in sanctuary once (6)A (one) in GRITH (sanctuary) 7 YACCA Evergreen causing hard grind for Aussie by … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,733 Plain – Competition Puzzle
A reasonably straightforward crossword from Azed today (straightforward that is if you can handle the weird words, something you should be able to do if you have a copy of Chambers to hand).
Azed No. 2,732 – Plain
A 13 x 11 grid this week.
Azed 2731
Azed provides us with a plain puzzle this week. Azed seems to have been scouring the dictionary for alternative spellings this week. I counted six entries that were not … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,730 Plain
Apart from a couple of clues, an uncommonly gentle offering from Azed this week.
Azed No. 2,729 ‘Give & Take’ – Competition Puzzle
A puzzle that requires some “giving” and “taking”.
Azed 2,729 – placeholder
The blog for Azed 2,729 (“Give and Take)” will now appear a week later than normal (October 20) due to the following announcement that is due to appear in the Observer on Sunday, … Read more >>
Azed 2728
Recently I’ve been solving Azeds quite quickly; on this one, however, I made rather a slow start, but once I’d got a few answers in the rest came reasonably smoothly. Thanks to Azed. … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,727 – Plain
A medium-difficulty Azed plain. I was a bit surprised to see two homophone clues: these always excite comment from people whose regional accents don’t make them obvious and Azed has in the past expressed misgivings about using such clues, for just this reason. In my case although I don’t have a regional accent one of them I pronounce differently from what is intended. But never mind; I won’t (like some) make an issue of it: it’s quite obvious what is intended.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.
Azed No. 2,726 Plain
A 13 by 11 grid this week, although Azed has chosen to use a grid which only allows him one 13 letter word.
Azed 2725
We have a plain puzzle from Azed this week. There didn’t seem to be as many really obscure entries this week compared to some others. However the 1 across and … Read more >>