Independent 7,428/Phi

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A nice puzzle from Phi to finish off the week. There was nothing too tricky here, but equally absolutely nothing to complain about, just a batch of very neat, very elegantly written clues. … Read more >>

Financial Times 13,457 / Styx

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A mix of simple and tricky clues, with uniformly clean surfaces. Specially enjoyed the devious definition in 19A. Across 1 GARLIC L (leaf) in (CIGAR)*. I’ve not seen leaf = L before but … Read more >>

Guardian 25,082 – Chifonie

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Pretty easy-going stuff from Chifonie here, with several rather obvious anagrams to get started with. It was enjoyable enough, though with nothing much to grab the attention, except I thought the surface reading … Read more >>

Independent 7427/Punk

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My impression is that we haven’t seen Punk for a while and if so he makes a welcome return. Some of these clues are memorable, if one could remember them, and my only … Read more >>

Financial Times 13,456 – Sleuth

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That was then, this is now…perhaps Sleuth is feeling a tad nostalgic, what with the three separate wordplay elements (13A, 28A, 6D) harking to times past.  Two major sticking points for me;  firstly … Read more >>

Financial Times 13,447 – Mudd

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Monday Prize Crossword on 26 July 2010 After the weekend excitement of John Henderson’s marriage to Jane Teather, complete with themed crosswords in all the major quality papers, Mudd’s week starter in the … Read more >>

Beelzebub 1,066 (25/07/10)

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A pretty tough week, I found. Despite the auspicious puzzle number, I don’t see any Hastings-related material here, but then I will tend to miss whole themes entirely. 19ac remains unexplained. *=anag, []=dropped, … Read more >>

Guardian 25080 / Paul

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A fun puzzle with Paul’s trademark dodginess evident in a few clues. Annoyingly, I can’t quite see 24a…. Across 8. VUVUZELA (V V [tiresom]E A ZULU)*; I like “the blasted thing?” as the … Read more >>