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Monk has provided a puzzle to get our teeth into this Tuesday morning. As is customary, Monk gave me a real workout, and I really had to solve this puzzle in two sittings, … Read more >>
Seeing Brendan’s name on a puzzle that I’m down to blog arouses rather mixed feelings… … there’s the pleasant prospect of an enjoyable solve, combined with the dread of missing the theme, especially … Read more >>
Falcon always a pleasure, and this morning’s no exception. A couple of new words and some ‘No, really?’ head-scratchery in the bottom left
CRUX kicks off April…
A date appropriate puzzle from Knut with lots of lively and occasionally off-the-wall clueing devices.
Quick and enjoyable solve – with smiles at 1ac, 10ac, 20ac, 2dn, 19dn, and 22dn/23dn. Thanks to Vulcan.
Thanks Orlando, for a neatly-clued, enjoyable puzzle that fits the Quiptic description. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 7 Everlasting cross goes inside and outside (8) EXTERNAL : ETERNAL(everlasting/never-ending) containing(… goes inside) … Read more >>
One of those where the last one in was the first one read and failed to solve, several times: 1A where I got totally fixated that the definition was some kind of egg … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here. Hello! There’s no rest for the wicked, and so I’m back again with this puzzle by Hypnos, to whom thanks. I was in need of something … Read more >>
I’m afraid left too long between solving the puzzle and writing the blog to remember how I found it at the time (and didn’t make any notes). I think it probably counts as … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3780.
March’s Genius challenge is provided by Soup. I note that Soup has been the December Genius compiler in 2016, 2017 and 2018 but I’ve never solved any of his puzzles myself, so I … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here. Hi all. After a long week, I took a longish time unwinding with this puzzle by Filbert, a setter whose crosswords I find to be a … Read more >>
It’s a while since I blogged a Crucible puzzle and so I was pleased to see his name on this one. I early on spotted a slip in the cluing for 3dn – … Read more >>
Phi was not on his usual day, so I realised that something special was happening.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.