Guardian Cryptic 26978 Pasquale

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(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.)  Not that hard, as it turned … Read more >>

Financial Times 15,325 – Dante

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Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 22, 2016

Once again, a Dante puzzle that wasn’t a write-in and one that took me significantly longer than the Rufus of that day.

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Financial Times 15,333 by MONK

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I found this trickier than the Monk puzzles I have blogged recently.  Sometimes I was fooled by the definitions, sometimes it was convoluted constructions, other times unfamiliar words.  In the end they were all solveable/guessable which is how it should be.    Thanks Monk for another super puzzle.

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Independent 9,323 by Dac

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I hope this means that Dac is becoming restored to his former health, because he has appeared today and also last week. I was under the impression that he had been unwell and was now only going to be doing every other week. If that was wrong then I’m sure everyone welcomes him back with open arms.

After a crossword last week that was arguably one of Dac’s less imaginative and elegant productions (that at least was the verdict of some of those posting here) he is right back to form: smooth surfaces and the whole thing satisfactory and (apart perhaps from 23ac) uncontroversial. The only thing militating against the surfaces is the unusually large number (for Dac) of clues that cross-reference some other clue.

Definitions underlined and in maroon.

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Financial Time 15332 Jason

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(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.)  It wasn’t plain sailing at the start, … Read more >>