A round-up of events of 2024 in crossword form. Find it to solve online or download and print at ft.com/crossword, or via the FT smartphone app.
Guardian Quiptic 1310 Anto
Happy New Year to one and all! Thank you to Anto. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Fire that awful person taking pictures (3,5) ART THIEF : Anagram of(… awful) FIRE … Read more >>
Financial Times 17,933 Jumbo by BUCCANEER
This grid is chock-full of the witty and precise clues that I have come to expect from Buccaneer. I nominate 55A for Clue of the Year. I hope that I have solved and parsed everything satisfactorily.
The grid with the clue previously missing from the online publication appears here: FT 17,933 revised
Everyman 4,079 by Everyman
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4079.
Independent 11,925 by Bluth
The puzzle is available to solve online or download here.
Quick Cryptic 39 by Picaroon
This is the thirty-ninth 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 Cryptic 29,576 by Paul
This is now three Paul puzzles in a row on my blogging days this month…
Independent 11,924 by Phi
Phi provides our usual Friday entertainment.
Financial Times 17,932 by GUY
A super fun and intriguing puzzle from GUY as my last blog for 2024.
Financial Times 17,931 by JASON
Apologies that my blog is later than usual.
Independent 11,923 by Filbert
Filbert provides us with our Boxing Day workout.
Guardian 29,575 – Arachne
A Boxing Day treat to see a puzzle from Arachne – a fairly gentle one, to suit anyone who may have overindulged yesterday, but beautifully constructed as ever. Thanks to Arachne, and Merry … Read more >>
Financial Times 17,930 by IO
I was fully expecting there to be no puzzle today.
Independent 11,922 / Stamp
Stamp has provided a puzzle with a festive ghost theme to keep us entertained between the presents and the turkey this Christmas Day. I found this to be quite a challenging crossword, although … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1886: Talk Among Yourselves by Ifor
Our second IQ blog is an Ifor – we’re in for a challenge!