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Vulcan starts the week with a straightforward and enjoyable puzzle, containing some excellent anagrams to help things along. There are some very nice surfaces, too. Thanks to Vulcan for the puzzle. Definitions are … Read more >>
Anto has the Quiptic for us this morning. A very generous, solver-friendly, grid made up for some tricky clueing, I thought. You? Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition … Read more >>
An enjoyable start to the week.
It’s a while since a Hoskins puzzle came up on my watch. Always a fun solve. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator … Read more >>
Azed presents us with a plain puzzle this week. Of course, Azed plain puzzles are not as easy as other setters’ plain puzzles. There were quite a few French references this week or … Read more >>
Sorry for the late and rushed post! This was a fun and fairly easy puzzle from Philistine. There was a minor theme of CORVIDs – crow, magpie and raven, but no COVID / … Read more >>
I found this hard. Really, really hard. As such, it is an excellent tool to discover the limits of your own capabilities. Which is what the theme was all about. Not that I … Read more >>
A tough challenge from Bradman this morning, which I made heavy weather of.
After what a number of commenters have called a tough week, we have a more straightforward puzzle from Brummie to round it off. We never know whether or not to expect a theme … Read more >>
It’s Phi-day again – in these strange times, it’s good to have a marker to remind us what day it is.
A snowy February and a puzzle from the Ace of Hearts. Extra letters in each clue to be removed and these spell out a definition in Chambers. Also five clashes to resolve using … Read more >>
Tough and a very fun – I had a huge smile after 17dn, and other favourites included 9ac, 11ac, 12ac, and 15dn. Lots of thanks to Vlad for the puzzle
Chalmie is this morning's FT setter.
Tees is occupying the Thursday slot this week. I found this to be an enjoyable, medium-difficulty puzzle, which I was able to solve independently with the exception of the WHO Director-General, whose name … Read more >>