Everyman No. 3298 (Dec. 13th)
I am here as a substitute for the regular blogger. The crossword posed no difficulty but I am unable to explain Clue 16d fully. Season’s Greetings to all readers. Across 1 MARITIME – … Read more >>
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Everyman No. 3297 (December 6th)
Lorraine: Fairly easy this week again, just love doing Everyman; I cannot wait for Sundays to arrive. Thank you Everyman. Nick: 6dn is interesting; ‘The Lord of the Flies novelist?‘- Collins defines ‘Lord … Read more >>
Azed 1958/are there any Welsh footballers?
Surprisingly fast solve for me — I spent less than an hour before breakfast doing this with a bit of help from the Usual Suspects. Until I came to a crashing halt with … Read more >>
Azed 1957
As always with Azed apparently complete soundness in the wordplay of his clues; there are one or two places where I’m not sure how to explain this, but I suspect someone will do … Read more >>
Everyman 3296
It seems that the ‘theme’ this week was multiple word phrases with six throughout the crossword including one 6 word composite and another 5 worder. Otherwise little of note and nothing that should … Read more >>
Everyman 3295 (November 22nd)
Lorraine: This week it took me a while to get started!. Having 9 anagrams certainly helped me though, I love anagrams because you know without doubt that you have got the correct solution. … Read more >>
Azed 1956
Solving time: 35 minutes without Chambers, but with one mistake A fairly straightforward Azed this one – I managed to invent all the right words without help except for 30A. Across 1 ARCHIBALD … Read more >>
Azed 1955
An Azed of mixed difficulty, I found. I sailed through about three quarters of it with trouble at all, including most of the five long answers, but made much heavier weather of the … Read more >>
Everyman 3294
Hopefully nothing too hard here. For some reason I wanted 15ac to be ALTAR for a while (A large being AL and in front of church being the definition) but after drawing various … Read more >>
Azed 1954
I’m hoping that this puzzle from last Sunday does not have a similar deadline extension to last week’s prize puzzle. If you know that it does, please let me know with a comment, … Read more >>
Everyman No. 3293 (8th November)
Lorraine: Another straight forward everyman this week, a real pleasure to solve. Legend to solution comments: * = anagram. < = word reversed. Across 1. BUDAPEST BUD + A + PEST 5. PLAY … Read more >>
Azed 1953
“Words may be false and full of art; sighs are the natural language of the heart”, by Thomas Shadwell is the quotation referred to here. The second part is obtained by the letters … Read more >>
Azed 1953
Due to the postal strike the closing date for entries has been put back to Saturday 14/11/2009 so today’s blog has been rescheduled for next Sunday.
Everyman 3292
Sorry for the brevity of this post – I was busy all last weekend so it’s all been slightly last minute… Fortunately not too difficult – if it had been I probably wouldn’t … Read more >>
Azed 1952: Pervy gumshoes
An Azed with a mix of easyish and fairly difficult clues, and a few pretty obscure words, which made it interesting to solve. I think I will go for 17a as my favorite … Read more >>