Never knowingly undersolved
A pleasant crossword and all as usual nowadays: the self-referential clue, the first letters clue, the rhyming pair (pairs this time, at a stretch 6ac and 17ac, but I haven’t coloured them), all of which are coloured.
Definitions underlined in crimson. Indicators (homophones, reversal, letter deletion, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated (like this)* or *(like this). Link-words in green.
An accessible Azed puzzle.
If you’re reading this on Saturday morning, then this week’s site issues may have been resolved.
This week’s 11 x 11 crossword from the Guardian, intended to teach cryptic crosswords, found here
Another bit o’ fun from Cyclops.
A good, honest and tough prize puzzle mental workout from Vlad this week…
Ah, we have the three-monthly numerical and it’s by Elap.
As usual, Friday sees us solving a puzzle set by Phi
I am covering for someone who’s away and did wonder what I’d get for a Friday cover …
A breezy challenge from JASON
Twin provides our Thursday challenge this week.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29797.
Gozo's up this Thursday morning.
“Extra words in some clues are synonyms for different words which each form a square in the grid within which a circle, touching all sides, must be drawn. In 14 other clues the wordplay gives one incorrect letter. Read from the grid the correct letters name an IMMUTABLE character. Read in clue order, the incorrect letters indicate what colour to fill the grid and how many circles to fill with what colour. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
What do we expect on a Wednesday? An Eccles puzzle. No complaints here then.