Enjoyed this, with 9ac and 12ac favourites…
Financial Times 15,223 – Dante
Monday Prize Crossword / Apr 25, 2016
A crossword in which Dante lived up to his reputation as a setter relying on cryptic and double definitions.
Financial Times 15,222 by Mudd
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 23, 2016
Final Call for 21st May Derby S&B
A message from Eileen and Peter (Kathryn’s Dad)
Our Derby S&B is only a few weeks away, on Saturday 21st May. It will be at The Brunswick Inn, which is a very short distance from Derby station. Come out of the station at the main exit, cross the road and bear right. In a couple of hundred metres, you’ll find the pub on your left.
Financial Times 15,231 by CHALMIE
I found some clues here easy and some hard enough to defeat me. Any help to finish the top-right corner appreciated! Enjoyable regardless. Thanks Chalmie.
Independent 9221 Dac
It’s Wednesday and we are pleased that we have a classic Dac to solve and blog. We hope he is continuing to make a good recovery. There are a number of French … Read more >>
Guardian 26,875 – Qaos
Good fun as always from this setter, though I have a couple of niggles on definitions, especially on the rather obscure 25a. Thanks to Qaos. Following on from the militaristic theme in Qaos’s … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1435: Prize Puzzle by eXternal
Inquisitor 1435Preamble: Wordplay in each across clue gives the answer with one extra letter; in clue order, these reveal two messages. The first indicates how the answers to six down clues must be … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,230 by ARMONIE
My last Tuesday FT blog … standard Armonie fare
Guardian 26,874 / Imogen
I thought I was going to be in for a hard time this morning with only a smattering of entries during my first pass through the clues but these were enough for me … Read more >>
Independent 9,220 / Eimi
It is the crossword editor himself who has supplied today’s lexical challenge. And not long after I blogged a highly topical puzzle about the Panama papers scandal, today sees me writing up another … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 859 Pan
(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.) I made more headway with the … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 859 with Picture Quiz
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) I made more headway with the down clues than the across ones. Par for … Read more >>
Independent 9,219 by Lohengrin
A Bank Holiday special today.
Guardian Cryptic 26,873 by Chifonie
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26873