MOO kicks off the week…
Guardian 29,453 / Pasquale
Pasquale kicks off the week in fine style. It’s over a year since I blogged a Pasquale puzzle and I really enjoyed this one. We have an interesting and wide-ranging set of clues … Read more >>
Independent 11,800 by Twin
My first Independent blog in a while…
Guardian Quiptic 1,289/Anto
Anto’s first crosswords for the Guardian were in the Quiptic slot, and it’s fair to say that they were not universally well received, either for their quality or for their suitability for the … Read more >>
Financial Times Sunday No.52 – World by Hamilton
More geography-based cruciverbal fun. Find it to solve online at ft.com/crossword
Everyman 4,058 by Everyman
If it’s Sunday it must be Everyman, so down the pub with the dog…
Independent on Sunday 1,797/Hoskins
Hoskins has the Sunday Independent puzzle for us, with the usual helping of ribaldry. Drugs and alcohol, as ever, but the addition this week of a collection of slang words for the membrum … Read more >>
Genius No 253 by Eccles
There’s an unusual, (possibly unique), theme in this month’s Genius puzzle.
Azed 2719
A plain puzzle from Azed this week. I got off to a reasonable start with this puzzle with a few of the early downs which led to me to SPLASH … Read more >>
Independent No. 11,799 by Tyrus
So here I am wondering what to say in the first paragraph so I don’t anything give away about this puzzle on the homepage.
I will say …
Quick Cryptic 18 by Picaroon
This is the eighteenth 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. The puzzle can be found here.
Guardian Prize 29,446 by Soup
A payoff awaits at the end of Soup’s tour-de-force series of innovative (unorthodox?!?) clues in this week’s Prize slot . . .
Financial Times 17,799 by Leonidas
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of 27 July, 2024
FT 17,804 by Mudd
Turbolegs is on holiday today, and has been unable to drag himself away from the pool long enough to do this morning’s FT, so I have stepped in to take his place. Thankfully, … Read more >>
Independent 11,798 by Phi
Phi’s back to Phiday this week – normal order restored….. …except that we have not been able to include the completed grid as we usually do, possibly due to an update to … Read more >>