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Azed provides us with our weekly crossword challenge and opportunity to increase our vocabulary. It was a plain Azed this week with a good mix of well known and obscure … Read more >>
Carefully constructed clues with no loose ends. Thank you Kairos. ACROSS 6 BEEFALO Look after worker with short fat animal (7) LO (look) follows (after) BEE (worker bee) with FAt (short) 7 … Read more >>
As the nights draw in and dawn comes after getting-up time, I have for my second blog in a row a puzzle by Hob Particularly liked 19ac, but the bands may not be … Read more >>
An educational (for me) solve from the Ace of Hearts this week…will OLIVER leave us asking for more?!… The preamble states that: “In OLIVER, four clues are normal and their answers are associated … Read more >>
I found this entertaining but tricky, a pleasure rather than a slog. The solutions are not hard to understand, just difficult to spot. Exactly how it should be I think. Thank you Paul. … Read more >>
Phi gives us a good Friday puzzle that seems to me to be neither too easy or too difficult There was one new word for me today. I haven’t come … Read more >>
80% straightforward 20%obscure , is how I would describe today’s FT solve. Thanks Bradman, for the treat.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27979. Strangely enough, I often find Paul’s weekday Guardian puzzles harder that his Prizes, and this was no exception. There was plenty of cunning misdirection, and on … Read more >>
It’s Boatman providing the challenge today, with a theme that must surely be unmissable. Today, it was not so much a case of spotting the theme as chasing down some knotty parsing but … Read more >>
A gentle but fun offering from Artexlen I completed this puzzle in two passes, with the two long answers at the top of the bottom being the key to solving the rest of … Read more >>
Quite a struggle for me today, and there are various answers that I don’t really understand. Many of the clues are very nice, but it looks to me that they call on knowledge … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 2, 2019 I finished this puzzle in what may be my record time for a Goliath. And I found it very entertaining. First I was … Read more >>
A fair challenge from Aardark today. Thank you. Realising that there was a pangram in the offing helped to narrow down some of the possibilities. This helped to balance out the grid being … Read more >>
A slow, tough, and enjoyable puzzle – favourites were 11ac, 26ac, 2dn, 19dn, and 20dn. Thanks to Picaroon.
Another fun puzzle to start the day – we always know that we will have some great wordplay in an Eccles puzzle. Eccles seems to be have been given a regular Wednesday slot … Read more >>