Bluth fills the mid-week Indy slot today.
Financial Times 17,423 by BASILISK
Basilisk at his witty best.
Independent 11,423 / Atrica
Atrica has provided our latest Tuesday challenge. I found this quite a challenge, and after two attempts, I needed to cheat to get 26, which was an unfamiliar spelling to me; once 26 … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1803: Intersection by Vismut
Intersection by Vismut Clues are listed in the normal order. In 20 clues, single extra letters generated by wordplay (not to be entered) spell in clue order what is unconventional about a … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,077 by Fed
A slow and steady solve with quite a few bits of tricky parsing. My favourites were 11ac, 21ac, 4dn, 12dn, and 23dn. Thanks to Fed for the puzzle
Financial Times 17,422 by SLORMGORM
Quite the workout today from Slormgorm . . .
Financial Times 17,421 by ARTEXLEN
ARTEXLEN provides this Monday morning puzzle…
Independent 11,422 by Xestobium
Xestobium (the scientific name for the Death Watch beetle) seems to have made a couple of previous appearances.
Guardian 29,076 – Vulcan
This was rather harder than usual for Vulcan, I thought, and I can’t fully parse 6d. No doubt help soon will be at hand. Thanks to Vulcan. Across 1 THAMES One can … Read more >>
Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence
A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot.
Independent on Sunday 1,734 by Italicus
The puzzle is available here.
Azed 2656
Now that the Observer has amended/clarified the rules for submitting Azed solutions we’re going back to publishing the blogs on the Sunday after the puzzle appears. After my first pass through the clues … Read more >>
Everyman 3,995
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3995.
Independent 11,421 by Serpent
Serpent provides today’s challenge.
Financial Times 17,414 by Leonidas
Weekend puzzle from the FT of May13, 2023