Financial Times 15,301 – Dante

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Monday Prize Crossword / Jul 25, 2016

While I more or less, just like others, breezed through the same day’s Rufus, this puzzle by his alter ego I found quite hard.

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Guardian 26,953 / Brendan

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It’s always a real pleasure to see Brendan’s name on a puzzle – and thank goodness he’s back more regularly again now. The solving was quite straightforward but it soon became obvious that … Read more >>

Independent 9,299 by Daedalus

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This is the first time that it has fallen to me to blog a crossword by Daedalus. The crossword Who’s Who says that his or her debut puzzle appeared only recently in the Independent. I looked back at what people had said and the reception seemed to be less than totally enthusiastic, but either Daedalus is learning or my standards are low (surely not!) because I found this to be a very pleasant solve with nothing there to encourage my Zoilist tendencies. Not totally easy — I see that I took rather a long time to solve it, but that’s just me I think.

Definitions underlined and in maroon.

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Financial Times 15308 Gaff

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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.)  As usual, with Gaff, the crossword … Read more >>

Guardian 26,951 – Rufus

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Only a couple of double definitions today, but otherwise a fairly standard Rufus, with eight cryptic definitions. I found it very easy even by his standards. Thanks to Rufus.         … Read more >>