Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 9, 2021
Financial Times 16,921 by GOZO
A super puzzle from Gozo. I enjoyed this. Thank you Gozo.
Independent 10,927 by Tees
Slightly tricky from Tees today, but enjoyable as always.
Guardian 28,581 — Brummie
A very quick solve for me today — almost a complete write-in, in fact — helped by a large number of clues involving full or partial anagrams. I initially thought this might constitute … Read more >>
Apologies and an explanation
My apologies to those of you who have emailed me recently but have not received a reply. I have spent the last 3½ weeks in hospital with no internet/email access, not even via … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1720: Comings and Goings by Eclogue
I’ve found puzzles by Eclogue quite variable in the past. Some excellent, some only so-so; some difficult, some not so hard. (And no correlation between the two.) Preamble: Wordplay in 18 clues … Read more >>
Independent 10,926 by Bluth
Bluth sets this week’s Tuesday challenge.
Guardian Cryptic 28,580 by Imogen
Imogen's today's Guardian setter…
Financial Times 16920 Zamorca
Thank you to Zamorca. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Spar has bread in front of till (5,3) MONEY BOX : BOX(to spar/to box without landing heavy blows as a form … Read more >>
Independent 10,925 by Knut
Monday fun from Knut.
Financial Times 16,919 by PETO
Good Monday puzzle from Peto.
Guardian Quiptic 1,144/Carpathian
A sound, pleasing and well-constructed puzzle from Carpathian this morning. I’ve nowt more to say about it, and that’s meant as a brava! to the setter. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 28,579 by Pan
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28579.
Everyman 3,913
There are several features of ‘the new Everyman’: rhyming answers (although I always have trouble finding these — Quito – Cointreau?), the ‘Primarily’ clue, which always provides a nice easy way in, the clues to these (as here) often being very clever, the reference to Everyman as ‘me’ which so far as I can see always appears quietly somewhere (in 12ac this time), and possibly others. Within these restrictions we are usually nowadays given a sound crossword. My criticisms below tend to be very minor. One might carp about the fact that there are as many as three (I think) reversals of the whole thing.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (hidden, reversal, homophone, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated (like this)* or *(this).
Azed No. 2,574 Plain
I don’t even know if I have completed this one right…