Guardian 24733 / Gordius

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Another quick post, I’m afraid – I hope there aren’t too many mistakes here. (I had a lot of trouble with this, which is pretty typical of my experience of Gordius’s puzzles.) Across … Read more >>

Guardian 24,732 / Rufus

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  A particularly gentle, I thought, start to the week from Rufus, with the typical sprinkling of cryptic and double definitions, but more than the usual number of simple charades. Across 1   PARAMOUNT: … Read more >>

Azed 1,933

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As usual with an Azed, I came across some words I had not met before, though all could be readily determined from the wordplay and a little help from Chambers. It took me a … Read more >>

Everyman 3272

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I’ve been rather busy this week so I’m writing this blog six days after having done the puzzle. I don’t remember getting particularly stuck on anything, and seem to remember plenty of pretty … Read more >>

Beelzebub 1,008 (14/06/09)

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*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. I thought this was going to be the week that Beelzebub defeated me. I wrote in entirely the wrong answer at 3dn which left the … Read more >>

Emoticons

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So that comments may at times be put more into context, and to perhaps brighten up the site a bit, I have activated graphic emoticons (smileys). The following may be used. Just type … Read more >>

Financial Times 13,107 / Aardvark

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I enjoyed this puzzle overall, except that I thought there was an overload of ‘select nth letter’ type of wordplay. The clues are a little wordy but have entertaining surfaces, notably 8A, 27A, … Read more >>