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(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) An enjoyable puzzle, thanks to Hectence. … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An enjoyable puzzle, thanks to Hectence. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 … Read more >>
Gosh, quite a tough week for me. Browsing the answers it’s not hard to see why. There’s a lot of unfamiliar stuff in there, either whole terms or just alternative spellings. Which we … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3561.
I think we have a debut puzzle here from Daedalus. Unless he is Logodaedalus in disguise. Unlike Daedelus’ son in Greek legend, I didn’t warm to it much. There are some where I’m … Read more >>
I solved this rather quickly (for me) and didn’t find myself abusing Chambers. A relatively healthy number of &lits but I struggled to understand the definition of DAFT until an email friend helped me out of my misery.
The pre Christmas EV is a joke themed puzzle from a new setter (or was it a collaboration?). Can the jokes be as bad as a real cracker jokes? If so what about … Read more >>
What a treat to get a Puck puzzle for my first Prize blog of the new year! I solved and blogged this the day after solving and blogging an uncharacteristically squeaky-clean Paul puzzle. … Read more >>
As is usual from Tyrus this was a pretty hard puzzle. Maybe not as hard as 8776 back in November which had me terribly stuck, but at the start of this one … Read more >>
From John Henderson (Nimrod et al) … I’ll get me ’at Inquisitor solvers, it seems, are a perverse bunch. For the second year running, the IQ Award has been won by the puzzle … Read more >>
Phi’s crosswords are almost like Dac’s: there is really very little to say, because all the clues are straightforward and have a nice surface. One can talk about the Nina, but in Phi’s case either — and this is quite often — he doesn’t have one, or it hardly cries out to me and I lazily prefer to let others find it.
Definitions underlined.
This serving from the Don can be aptly likened to being a Jekyll-and-Hyde type of grid – polarized between some very easy clues and some true brain-busters.
Really enjoyed this…
Well, this wasn’t much fun. I’m prepared to consider the possibility that my brain has been stultified by mince pies and sherry but in any case I found this a slog.
A tough challenge from Pasquale, with quite a few names in the answers, which with the need for some “general knowledge” and a couple of obscure words might not make this to everyone’s … Read more >>