The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4079.
Observer
Azed No. 2,739 Plain
A pleasant but not a terribly demanding Azed before the trials of next week’s Christmas competition. There are unusually several mistakes, which makes one feel that he’d have benefited from an editor, who could have noticed them. But who’d be Azed’s editor? What he says goes, and it’s amazing that for well over 50 years every week we’ve had a nice crossword with very few mistakes. I shall be surprised if next week we find any, even though it will no doubt be highly complicated.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.
Everyman 4,078 by Everyman
Everyman to be solved so time to persuade the dog to take me to the pub
Everyman 4,077/8 December
A reasonably straightforward Everyman this week, I thought, with some nice misdirections as well as the usual trademark clues. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind … Read more >>
Azed No. 2,738 Plain
Another straightforward plain puzzle from Azed this week.
Everyman 4,076 by Everyman
Pretty difficult this week I thought — I often solve Everyman when I’m not blogging and it can be far easier than this. Why do I always get the tough ones? The usual Everyman trademarks are there and coloured above. It seemed there were more cases than usual of there being a need for explanation.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (anagram, reversal, hidden, homophone etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated (like this)* or *(like this). Link-words in green.
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.
Everyman 4,075 by Everyman
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4075.
Everyman 4,074 by Everyman
Sunday, so walk the dog around Framlingham and Orford castles and then find the pub for beer, dog biscuits, beef scraps from the kitchen and the Everyman
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 >>
Everyman 4,073/10 November
I found this week’s puzzle a bit clunky and niggly, with some fairly unconvincing surface readings. Let’s see what everyone else thought. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition … Read more >>
Everyman 4,072 by Everyman
I’m afraid I didn’t enjoy this very much. It was incredibly difficult; I used electronic aids quite freely once I became stuck, and some of the clues seemed rather clunky and impenetrable, but that’s probably just my incompetence. No doubt in due course all will be explained. (On the other hand one or two I thought were very good.)
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).