Never knowingly undersolved
A harder-than-average Azed, I thought, with a fairly high proportion of unfamiliar words. All impeccably clued as usual, though I’m a little unsure about my parsing of 28. Thanks to Azed … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3804.
The Observer crossword from Sep 1, 2019.
I never thought it would happen but I actually quite like the Everyman crosswords nowadays.
Easier than usual I thought, but no less enjoyable. Thank you Azed.
I enjoyed this Everyman offering. Getting used to his or her ‘trademarks’ – linked clues and a propensity for clue-as-definition devices – helped the solve along. What did you make of it? … Read more >>
An alphabetical jigsaw for this Bank Holiday weekend puzzle, but this time Azed has not provided word lengths.
An excellent and enjoyable example of what the new Everyman can do.
A standard puzzle from Azed this week There aren’t many words beginning PC and we had one of the few at 1 across. Perhaps not surprisingly, that wasn’t my first … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3800.
Another fascinating tour though Chambers by our expert guide. Thank you Azed.
The Observer crossword from Aug 4, 2019
The ‘new’ Everyman’s style is becoming quite a consistent one.
A straightforward plain Azed
I took a while to get going on this one, but once I had a few entries in I had a sudden flurry of successes, and most of the rest went in fairly … Read more >>
Another sound enough offering from Everyman this morning, but with one clue where the instruction is missing and a few – in my opinion at least – with rather random surface readings. … Read more >>
As the preamble says, this is an anniversary puzzle. And with lots of other coverage of the same anniversary in the last week or so, it’s not hard to guess the subject.