Carpathian is a regular and reliable Quiptic setter – here she is again.
Financial Times Sunday No.17 – News by Buccaneer
Buccaneer returns as the setter for the September edition of the monthly News Puzzle. Solve it on the FT website or via the smartphone app.
Azed 2674
Please excuse a rather terse blog – I’ve been away and had to write it in a bit of a hurry. I hope anything I haven’t said is verifiable in Chambers. Thanks to … Read more >>
Everyman 4,013/17 September
Another pleasing and well-constructed crossword from Everyman. Plenty here for the less experienced solver to get their teeth into. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1752 Xestobium
Thank you to Xestobium. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Rook eaten by animal, leaving front part of body (6) BREAST : R(abbrev. for “rook”, the chess piece) contained in(eaten by) … Read more >>
Independent 11,529 by Phi
Q. What happens when a Phi crossword doesn’t appear on a Friday? A. You get a Phi crossword the next day instead. Also, the fact the yesterday’s Coot puzzle was so heavily themed … Read more >>
Guardian Prize No 29,177 by Paul
An alphabetical jigsaw from Paul this week
Financial Times 17,524 by Zamorca
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 18, 2023
Financial Times 17,529 by MOO
An interesting challenge from MOO this Friday.
Independent 11,528 / Coot
This appears to have been the first crossword by Coot in the Indy that has been blogged on 15, although I see that one was published in the IoS and blogged earlier this … Read more >>
Guardian 29,182 / Paul
Paul rounds off the week with a puzzle that I found something of a challenge. I’m feeling decidedly 22ac today. I had a look at the Guardian crossword comments – they don’t do … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,181 by Fed
I liked this a lot, with nice surfaces and some chewy parsing to work through. My favourites were 8ac, 9ac, 14ac, 5dn, and 18dn. Thanks to Fed for the puzzle
Financial Times 17,528 by GAFF
Gaff wakes up the Thursday morning grey cells.
Independent 11527 / Serpent
Serpent is the Independent setter today. Serpent often incorporates a message or theme into his puzzles. Today we have a phrase in the unchecked letters in the perimeter of the … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations No. 1607: Eightsomes by Gaston
In crossword-land, ‘Eightsome’ is usually associated with ‘Reels’, and has 8-letter words meshing, cog-like, around their clue numbers…but Gaston seems to be serving up some different types of EIGHTSOMES here…