Azed 2109

This was a standard Azed competition puzzle in that all the clues were normal, except for the one entry that has to be clued by competitiors withm their submissions.       I … Read more >>

Independent on Sunday 1185 Donk

A new setter for me. Some ingenious, tricky and innovative definitions, eg. “He”, “someone in bed”, “emissions”, “it’s”, and so on, and some interesting and misdirecting surfaces. I found this more difficult than the … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,157 by Bradman

Typical high quality       Across 1 LOGISTICAL (organisational) ITS< in LOGICAL (rational) 7 SHED (outside building) SHE (that woman) D (died) 9 INKY (very dark) IN Kentucky 10 LATENT HEAT dd … Read more >>

Guardian 25,788 / Araucaria

I think there might be some cries of ‘obscurity’ this morning but the less familiar [or unknown] solutions were all very fairly and clearly clued, I think. For me, the difficulties lay more … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,156 / Hamilton

A change of blogger today due to work commitments. I can’t say I particularly enjoyed this puzzle, too many four letter words for my liking including one (12ac) that I cannot explain. Assuming … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,147 – Dante

Monday Prize Crossword/ Oct 29 I have to confess that, despite some very easy clues, I found this the hardest Dante crossword  I’ve ever solved, or better: tried to solve. Probably due to the … Read more >>