AZED No. 1,996 Plain
Nick: A slightly more difficult AZED this week, I felt. I am afraid I am totally beat with the explanation of 1ac, but I am sure readers here will enlighten me. The blog … Read more >>
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Everyman No. 3335 (29th August)
Trafites: Notched up a level this week we feel. Is 25ac a new higher level clue type introduced to Everyman? Again a nice crossword to solve. Thank you Everyman. . . . Legend … Read more >>
Azed 1995
I managed to solve about three-quarters of this puzzle without any assistance from Chambers or the internet. It’s surprising what being on holiday in remote places can do for the brain. However, I … Read more >>
Everyman 3334
Not my favourite one ever. Far too many anagrams (just under half of all the clues contained anagrams) and some obscure knowledge – I don’t think I have ever used the phrase at … Read more >>
Azed 1994
A fairly straightforward Azed, with not too much tricky wordplay; quite a few words that needed confirmation from Chambers, though. I may have misunderstood the wordplay at 11a. Thanks to people who pointed … Read more >>
Everyman No. 3333 (15th August)
Lorraine: Nothing to taxing this week, I got Milwaukee (15d) but needed Nick to work it out for me, also loved 25a it made me chuckle. Thanks Everyman for another enjoyable puzzle. Legend … Read more >>
Azed 1993
The standard, routine, par for the course, vanilla wordplays waiting for reader enlightenment. Across 1 BARON,G – it’s broad-bladed knife 6 M,AVENS – indeed AVENS is a rosaceous plant 12 ETOURD*,ERIE – stupid … Read more >>
Everyman 3332
A slightly odd mixture of nice neat and pretty easy cluing with rather a few obscurer pieces of general knowledge meaning that there may have been the odd place where you could see … Read more >>
Everyman No. 3331 (1st August)
Lorraine: Nice easy puzzle this week, thank you Mr. Everyman. I have a small query in 17dn. Please note the spelling mistake in 1dn. as published in the electronic versions; sorry to be … Read more >>
Azed 1992
What you always get from Azed: apparently tortuous clues, but everything’s do-able so long as you persevere with all the wading through Chambers, because all the clueing is completely sound. Across 1 WIT-CRACKER … Read more >>
Azed 1991 – Ars Magna
Azed 1991 – Ars Magna Clues led to two words which were anagrams of each other – the definition provided one, and the wordplay the other. In the lists below, the definition word … Read more >>
Everyman 3,330
A lot of double definitions this week and one clue that I’m not completely sure about although looks as though it might be a dd (any help much appreciated). Otherwise not the easiest … Read more >>
Azed 1990 – Troy Troy Troy again
A pretty easy Azed this week: with some judicious guessing of unfamiliar words (which one gets quite good at after solving these puzzles for several decades) I managed to finish this in less … Read more >>
Everyman No. 3329 (18th July)
The Trafites: Due to a sad week, the blog was a bit rushed today; this in memory of my dear wife’s brother, Polly, who died on Friday. . . . Legend to solution … Read more >>
AZED No. 1,989 Plain
Nick: A perhaps more difficult AZED this week, due to the strange grid having two words per quarter connecting each ‘mini-grid’; for me, this made it like four very small crosswords, with the … Read more >>