Never knowingly undersolved
Another high-quality puzzle to exercise our Sunday brains, though I do have a query about 4 down. Thanks to Azed. Across 1 BRITPOP Trip freely with disco music around – such as … Read more >>
Most of this was quite routine and the usual satisfactory product, but one or two gave me a lot of trouble. One was a complete mystery until I looked up one of the words, which was new to me. I’m still unsure about one of the others and would welcome explanations, since mine is a bit tenuous.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagrams shown (like this)* or *(like this), depending on where the indicator (in italics) is.
I thought this was very difficult and there was a period of panic when I thought I’d have to give up and ask for help, but eventually one fell, a fairly obvious one really but it defeated me for a long time, and the others were then solvable. It took a long time to get started, but once I had done so everything went in easily enough, until I reached the impasse already described.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (homophone, reversal, hidden, anagram etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green.
I have just heard of the passing of Allan Scott who was a former Everyman setter. Thanks to crypticsue for the following link: RIP Allan Scott aka Campbell
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4047.
A 13 x 11 grid this week.
Another Bank Holiday weekend, another chance to walk the dog and do the Everyman in the pub over a beer or two
Azed gives us a plain competition puzzle this week where solvers are asked to write a clue for the entry at 5 down. This was a typical Azed crossword with … Read more >>
Another accessible puzzle from the Everyman stable, with all setter’s usual trademarks: the rhyming pair, the self-reference, and the initial letter clue. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as … Read more >>
Assuming that I have parsed everything correctly, I found this Azed less daunting than some of the recent offerings.
A plain puzzle from Azed.
A slightly unusual grid, with 90-degree symmetry, and a large cross of bars in the centre that might have tended to break the puzzle into isolated corners, but Azed has avoided this with … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4043.
How complicated this all is. It took me ages. I drew the grid on a piece of squared paper and armed myself with a pencil, not the usual pen, then started by solving as many of the clues as possible. Since I got two of the ten-letter answers I took a punt and pencilled them in at right angles to each other — there was a letter that fit both words where they crossed. Then I tentatively added the answers that I had and went on until things went wrong. For the second time I was lucky and the only wrong positioning quickly led to a dead end, and I could retrace my steps. I went on and on and to my surprise it all worked out OK, although I was very fortunate: similar such things have in the past led me to start all over again.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.