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An enjoyable Sunday solve from the Shakespearean one. One or two remote synonyms, I thought, but generally clearly clued. Just a couple where I’m unsure of the exact parsing. Abbreviations … Read more >>
The Observer crossword / Mar 18, 2018
Some setters just can’t put a foot wrong. Here’s one of them.
More top quality work from Maize – no fancy themes or Nina (that I can see), but a testing cryptic workout to keep us on our toes… I timed this one at 12:45, … Read more >>
It’s spring and the snow drops from the sky, rather than growing up from the earth. A puzzle from Vismut – a new compiler for me. 4 additional words in across answers which … Read more >>
We found this very tough, but looking back I’m not sure exactly why. There were a few words I struggled to recall (see the next paragraph) but that doesn’t quite explain it. It … Read more >>
A brilliant challenge from CHALMIE, thanks to whom for enlivening an otherwise normal Friday. Superb cluing and excellent surfaces – lucky to have drawn him for my blog this week.
Phi-day again and another great puzzle to end the week. We can’t help feeling that there must be something going on here, but we can’t see it. Can anyone out there find … Read more >>
A themed puzzle from Crucible today, which I enjoyed, having agreed to stand in for the scheduled blogger. The theme is 20,22, a 23ac by 7, so well known that I’m sure you … Read more >>
Sorry for the delay, but the puzzle didn’t appear online until after my lunch break, so I have had to sneak a few minutes this afternoon to get the puzzle done.
Hob has provided a themed puzzle for our delectation this Thursday. The blog appears late, for which I apologise. As 27/04 indicates, the puzzle, in its clues and its solutions, is peppered with … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27463.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 10, 2018
My apologies for the delay in posting: I had no internet access earlier and I had to go out before it was restored. It’s the vernal equinox and from here, at least, it … Read more >>
Excellent as ever. On many of these clues the solution became apparent long before the explanation, there is one that still eludes me. Thank you Monk.
I’ve been blogging a few Tees puzzles recently and this one makes a good puzzle for a Wednesday The only word I wasn’t familiar with today was GOLDENROD at 13 across … Read more >>