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Alchemi has provided today’s puzzle for our delectation. It is a while since I have been called upon to blog one of his puzzles. I found this quite an easy puzzle to make … Read more >>
Ground Force by Ifor All clues bar five contain either a single or two consecutive extra letters to be removed, always from a single word, and leaving a shorter word. When read in … Read more >>
Found this tough to finish, with several unfamiliar words which were mostly gettable but required some double-checking. Favourites were 8ac, 11ac, 5dn, 18dn, and 19dn. Thanks to Brummie
Joy. A new setter. And a good' un, too.
An excellent puzzle that had me delving quite deeply at times to see how the clues worked.
Not as easy as Pan can be – certainly harder than her Prize puzzle a couple of weeks ago – but generally straightforward and Monday-friendly. Thanks to Pan Across 4. DOCTOR Tamper … Read more >>
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Difficult prisoner loudly taking drugs (9) CONFUSING : CON(short for “convict”/prisoner) + F(abbrev. for “forte”, musical instruction to play loudly) + … Read more >>
A smooth start to the week from SLORMGORM…
An enjoyable Cyclops, with a line-up of the usual suspects as clue-surface-reading targets…
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The puzzle can be found here. Hi all. I enjoyed today’s puzzle, despite one clue which I don’t think works (25a). Including cats is a guaranteed way to please me, and I … Read more >>
This is the second Genius puzzle by Chameleon (his first was No 202, back in April last year). The special instructions said: “In six clues their wordplay element contains surplus letters, to be … Read more >>
A minor delay with the late arrival of the PDF on the Guardian website, and then this turned out to be quite a tricky puzzle, with quite a lot of unfamiliar words. As … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3876. A couple of unusual parsings and some byways of general knowledge made this perhaps more difficult than many an Everyman. ACROSS 1 PENCIL-PUSHERS Clerks, chipper unless … Read more >>
It’s a Saturday and once again we have a Serpent to blog. It was quite a challenge.