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Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 3 Sometimes it’s D-Day (i.e. Dante), sometimes it’s C-Day. C stands for Crux, a setter with a love for good surfaces. This particular puzzle which can be found here , … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 1, 2012 Ah, what a lovely puzzle! Plaudits for 12A (LA MER), 18A (EXTRACTOR FAN), 24A (LA SCALA) and 9D (TRANSFORMATION). Slight, tentative quibble about … Read more >>
Eileen has kindly allowed me to use her Fifteensquared address to post here, to say that I am organising the next Sloggers and Betters Midlands get-together, which will be in Derby on Saturday … Read more >>
Fiendishly clever Across 1 BIOPIC (film) I (international) OP (work) in BIC (pen) 5 DIES AWAY (disappears) (A WISE)* in DAY (24hrs) 9 BUTTRESS (prop) TT (races) RES (reserve) in … Read more >>
A pleasant crossword from Dac where the solution built up gradually with each further pass through the acrosses and downs. I found the crossing letters particularlly helpful when solving this puzzle. … Read more >>
Nutmeg is a fairly regular Inquisitor contributor. This is her (I think) 15th crossword in the Inquisitor series. The preamble stated: "Having completed the grid, solvers must remove a significant group of letters … Read more >>
Paul isn’t suffering from writer’s block today… Not Paul’s hardest or rudest but I can’t suss out 18 properly so suggestions welcome. [Note the clue was changed later to be: Attendants semi-dressed, including … Read more >>
A nice accessible crossword from Eimi today, with only one or two clues that I struggled to understand. The very strange grid, with its preponderance of three-letter answers and its unches at the … Read more >>
An enjoyable puzzle, not too taxing, though I took some time to get into it. Don’t know why – perhaps the late night yesterday. Thanks Jason. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The … Read more >>
This must be a unique blog. I am in Bangkok on a short holiday and without convenient Internet access. So I went to a roadside cafe featuring free WiFi, had a drink and … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism My criticism of Nimrod is that he sometimes does seem to go out of his way to make the puzzle as difficult as possible, … Read more >>
I made heavy weather of this one, and there are a couple of clues where I am not sure if the wordplay.
Apologies for the delay with this one. I lost my laptop mid-week and had to re-solve this online. In doing so, I’ve lost the name of the setter! It was just as much … Read more >>
I found this one a bit tougher than your usual Everyman. It’s all clearly indicated as always, so perhaps it was just me having a bit of an off day. There were as … Read more >>
I was wondering whether there might be some kind of special for this, as the first round(ish) number since 2000 and happening to coincide with a competition week, but it turned out to … Read more >>