Solvers of The Observer’s Azed crossword, both regular and occasional, are invited to a special lunch to celebrate puzzle No. 2,750 at Wolfson College, Oxford on Saturday 3rd May, followed by afternoon tea at Azed’s Oxford home. For full details please email heald (dot) richard (at) gmail.com.
Financial Times 17,959 by ARTEXLEN
ARTEXLEN kicks off the week…
Guardian 29,602 / Vulcan
It’s been one of those weekends when my monthly Prize blog coincided with the Friday / Monday blogging overlap, so you get me three days running (with an Imogen / Vulcan combination to … Read more >>
Independent 11,950 by Wire
Wire gets us going for a new week
Financial Times 17,958 by Mudd
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of January 25, 2025
Guardian Quiptic 1314 Carpathian
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues.
Independent on Sunday 1,822 by Filbert
The puzzle is available to solve online or download here.
Financial Times Sunday No.77 – News by Leonidas
It’s the last Sunday of the month (already?) which means it’s time once again for the FT’s cruciverbal round-up of topical events. Find it to solve online or download and print at ft.com/crossword, or via the FT smartphone app.
Quiptic 1,314 by Carpathian
Carpathian is back her usual Quiptic spot after a long spell of setting Quick Cryptics. The crossword can be found here.
Everyman 4,083 by Everyman
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4083.
Azed No. 2,744 Plain
A 13 x 11 grid this week, but no 13-letter words.
Independent 11,949 by Bluebird
A poor show from Bluebird today …
Quick Cryptic 43 by Picaroon
This is the forty-third Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords. The whole point of these crosswords is support and encouragement of new solvers, so special rules for these crosswords apply – see here – those rules include not posting solving times. This puzzle can be found here.
Guardian Prize 29,595 / Imogen
It seems that Imogen’s appearances in the Prize slot become less and less predictable. In my last Imogen Prize blog, I wrote, “For a while now, I’ve been used to prefacing my blogs … Read more >>
Listener No 4849 Peace at Last by Priest
Perhaps it is misguided of us to expect a gentle puzzle for the first of the Listener year. This one promised a literary work and we were going to find ‘echoes’ in every … Read more >>