Financial Times 13,363 – Dante
Monday Prize Crossword on 19 April 2010 Another light and easy start to the week with Dante and his brand of crisp and slick clues always put together with smooth surfaces. Most solvers … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,362 by Mudd
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 17 This puzzle strikes me as a mixed bag. Mudd comes up with a clever cryptic definition for LIE DETECTOR (4D) and a cute 25A, … Read more >>
Guardian 24,996 / Gordius
Apologies for the belated post, the scheduled blogger has been tied up with work commitments and I didn’t get in until a short while ago to see the email he sent when he … Read more >>
Independent 7,342/Dac
My first blog for what seems like quite a while, and what better way to get back on the horse than with a Dac. Wonderful clueing as always, 2D being my pick of … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,371 / Cinephile
A themed puzzle from Cinephile in his customary Wednesday slot. The ‘leaving body’ indicated a ‘body with leaves’ or put more simply a tree. It helped that I tackled the down clues first so … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1122: Last One Standing by Loda
Not that tough a crossword – many normal clues could be solved cold on the first pass through, and the theme yielded fairly quickly. But enjoyable for all that. (Was the puzzle number … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,370 / Neo
Another collection of devious clues from Neo. I am unfortunately stumped on two of them; I am sure help will be forthcoming shortly. And it was, from Rishi (inside two minutes!) and Eileen. … Read more >>
Guardian 24995 – Quantum
Quantum aka Quark (FT) aka the late Eric Burge who passed away in June 2008 … making today’s puzzle a blast from the past. Apart from a dictionary check to ensure there was … Read more >>
Independent 7341/Virgilius
Virgilius amuses us with variations on the colours pink and blue, as always quite delightfully. Across 1/3 PINK ELEPHANTS — (the pine planks)* — when one is loaded (i.e. drunk) one sees pink … Read more >>
Guardian 24,994 / Rufus
Morning all! Funnily enough, when we remembered that we were due to blog Rufus, H mentioned that this setter always uses a number of cryptic definitions and naval references, and this puzzle didn’t … Read more >>
Independent 7340 by Glowworm
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism A fairly easy start to the week with some neat clues and no obvious theme or NINA. 23 across was my pick of the … Read more >>
Private Eye/Cyclops 415 – Bill and two Bens
I made hard work for myself with this puzzle by writing in several incorrect answers. I guess I was hurrying and didn’t read the clues properly, and sometimes wrote in what I didn’t … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1,052 (18/04/10)
This seemed a very hard one to get in to, with six twelve-letter entries and a good handful of eights and nines. Solving time was therefore spent mostly on the first half of … Read more >>
Azed 1977
A mostly straightforward puzzle, which I think took me around 40 minutes, with Chambers just used at the end to find the answer to 16D and correct my daft mistake at 23A. This … Read more >>
Everyman 3316
Pretty nice this week. 10ac I am not sure of the exact correct parsing (I have 2 options which both seem equally likely) but I’m sure someone will clarify. Also I think 6dn … Read more >>