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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.) A puzzle with a touch of … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A puzzle with a touch of science from Qaos. Quite some tricky constructions to … Read more >>
Bradman, yet again for me. And he doesnt disappoint, having served up an interesting and intuitive grid. Quite a few clues where I was scratching my head before coming up with the answer. Loved it, thanks Bradman!!
Not a bad puzzle, this, but a rather workmanlike one.
A fun puzzle from Paul today… …with lot of references (some of which I may have missed) to the King (Elvis Presley), and a side order of Queen. Thanks to Paul. … Read more >>
A quick search of fifteensquared shows that Hephaestos is a setter’s name that has not featured before. I wonder what kind of puzzle he/she will set? Well we usually find … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/May 5 An enjoyable ride in the wonderous world of Crux crosswords. This time, however, there were a lot of similarities to the puzzles of that other Monday regular, Dante. Meaning: … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 3, 2014 This was an easy and relatively lacklustre Cincinnus. My top clue is 21 (BEACON) and I also like 14D (SNAKEBITE). ACROSS 1 I … Read more >>
What can be said that hasn’t already been said? The usual perfect construction, with a personal slight dislike of the word ‘some’ as a hidden indicator.
Definitions in italics.
The perfect lunchtime or coffee break crossword, very enjoyable.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26259. I thought this a splendid puzzle, with misdirection in all directions, and definitions that required much thought to see their appropriateness. Across 1. “Sun” follows this … Read more >>
A welcome return by Hypnos. Thematically, 32 clues have a superfluous letter in a jumbled word in the definition part; these letters spell out the theme, illustrated by five … Read more >>
(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 straightforward puzzle normal for … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An enjoyable straightforward puzzle normal for a Tuesday. Thanks to Sayang. Definitions are underlined in … Read more >>
After the superb Indy puzzle from Morph yesterday, I was prepared for a bit of a let-down to solve and blog today, so I was even more than usually delighted to find Philistine’s … Read more >>