A wonderful tribute from the FT today to a very talented setter.
Inquisitor 1815: Watch Your Step by Elpenor
Watch Your Step by Elpenor All clues are normal. Within each row or column, any occurrences of a certain letter in clued answers must be removed before entry into the grid; the removed … Read more >>
Independent 11,495 / Kairos
Kairos has provided today’s medium-difficulty puzzle, on what is traditionally theme day. This puzzle has been compiled on a grid that accommodates a very large number of clues, many of which give short … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,149 by Fed
A fun puzzle from Fed this morning.
Financial Times 17,495 by PETO
Some of the clues in today’s Peto puzzle took me a bit of thinking to unravel, but I believe these parsings work . . .
Financial Times 17,494 by ARTEXLEN
ARTEXLEN kicks things off this week…
Guardian Quiptic 1239 Carpathian
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Soldier has location for drone? (8) PARASITE : PARA(short for “paratrooper”/soldier who parachutes into the combat zone) plus(has) SITE(a location/place at … Read more >>
Independent 11,494 by Knut
A very enjoyable and tricky puzzle.
Guardian Cryptic 29,148 by Vulcan
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29148.
Independent on Sunday 1,746 by Brunel
The puzzle is available here.
Everyman 4,007
The crossword may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4007.
Azed 2668
A medium-strength offering from the master, challenging and instructive as ever. Thanks to Azed. Rather unusually, the rubric mentions three “problematic” answers: two that are not in Chambers, and one abbreviation. Azed sometimes … Read more >>
Independent 11,493 by Bluth
With a traditional British summer in full swing Bluth inerrupts the wind and the rain. A great pleasure as always. Some novel constructs which I have come to expect from Bluth – all … Read more >>
Guardian Prize 29,141 / Paul
It’s Paul filling the Prize slot this week, with something of a mixture of clue styles. We had old favourites at 4dn and 19dn, for instance, but it turned out that the former … Read more >>
Financial Times 17,487 by Rosa Klebb
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 5, 2023