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Serpent has supplied this Thursday’s crossword puzzle for our stimulation and entertainment. This old grid is one of my least preferred as a solver, since there is little variety in terms of entry … Read more >>
Thank you to Picaroon. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Spin around and arouse cad after taking stimulants (4,2,4,4) TURN ON ONE’S HEEL : [TURN ON](to arouse/to stimulate) + [HEEL(a cad/an … Read more >>
Spring is here and so is an elementary puzzle from Opsimath. Extra letters in the word play of some clues to spell out two titles. Find the author and the original title of … Read more >>
Alberich is today's FT compiler.
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 1, 2021
I didn’t find this as hard as the last couple of Monk puzzles I blogged. No less enjoyable though. Thank you Monk.
Eccles appears every second Wednesday in the Independent It’s always enjoyable to blog one of his crosswords. This puzzle had Eccles’ usual smooth clues with surfaces that conjure up pictures … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28443.
Ifor has been setting Inquisitor crosswords since 2011 and his puzzle themes vary widely, I have blogged quite a few of Ifor’s puzzles in the first half of the 2010s, but this is … Read more >>
An entertaining puzzle from Brummie today, with some clever and witty clues. I thought the surfaces were generally smoother and more meaningful than is sometimes the case with this setter. More often than … Read more >>
Slightly tricky from Phi today. He’s usually here on Fridays, so there must be something going on . . .
A playful and and sometimes testing Tuesday offering.
It’s Anto’s turn in the Quiptic slot this week.
It always takes me a long time to blog a Tees puzzle, not because it’s exceptionally difficult, but because there are always some interesting words or references in them, so I end up … Read more >>
Enjoyable and mostly quite straightforward, with a few more complicated parsings to work out at the end. Favourites were 17ac, 5dn, and 16dn. Thanks to Pan