This is the twenty-first 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.
Private Eye (Cyclops/785) Absymal Setback
I’m suffering weekly bloggers malaise.
That’s where you have bags of time to prepare a blog, and solve the puzzle, take notes, and prepare the main part of the blog but leave the opening words till the last minute. Then on every reminder click “remind me later” till it can’t be ignored. Then realise you have largely forgotten about it all.
Guardian Prize Puzzle No 29,464
Another outing for Brockwell in the prize slot this week.
Financial Times 71,817 by Leonidas
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 17, 2024
Independent 11,816 / Phi
Phi is occupying the usual Friday slot, which wasn’t the case when it last fell to me to blog the Friday puzzle on the opening day of the Olympics. I found this to … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29469 Paul
Thank you to Paul. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1, 11. Cash (both extremes) described by newspaper articles – like so? (4,2,6) RAGS TO RICHES : 1st and last letters of(… … Read more >>
Financial Times 17,822 by MUDD
A breezy challenge from MUDD
Financial Times 17,821 by Guy
Apologies for the formatting below, but the blogging software appears to have a glitch and I was unable to get it working properly, so the definitions are in bold below. Guy exercises our … Read more >>
Independent 11815 / Amoeba
The only reference I can find for Amoeba as a setter on fifteensquared relate to puzzles supplied by him at the last three Slogggers & Betters get together in York, so I am … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,468 by Pangakupu
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29468.
Enigmatic Variations No. 1655: Assertion by Skylark
ASSERTION anagrammatises to ‘arsonites’, ‘notarises’, ‘rosinates’ and ‘senoritas’…which one is Senorita Skylark maybe leading us towards?…
17,820 Financial Times by IO
A mixture of simpler and far trickier clues from IO this morning.
Independent 11,814 by Filbert
Filbert in his usual Wednesday slot.
Guardian 29,467 / Philistine
It’s good to be back after a few days away (my thanks to Shanne for taking over last week) and better still to find a Philistine puzzle to blog. And it’s Philistine on … Read more >>
Financial Times 17819 Gozo
Thank you to Gozo. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Please excuse the unusual formatting. I’ve had to make do since my usual posting method is not working. Across Rodent, second seen in … Read more >>