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Seasons greetings to all from a very blustery and wet Yorkshire, and many thanks for all the messages of concern as to our well-being! On the south side of York Jane and I … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Dec 21, 2015
It’s the festive season and so it’s time for the annual Carte Rosee , Dante’s Christmas treat.
It’s a crossword with a completely blank grid and clues without clue number and enumeration. Opinions are possibly divided but it wasn’t as bad as it looked.
Another top-notch puzzle form Monk, and easy on the grey matter for the post-Christmas period. Thank you Monk.
This is the final Dac puzzle of 2015. The entries were fairly well known words or phrases. For me, the least well known was SLOTH BEAR at 17 down. … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26767.
Schadenfreude provided a good challenge for Christmas The preamble was not too long and fairly understandable even on the first read through. It told us that "The perimeter clues and … Read more >>
This crossword from Hob was in the Nimrod league so far as difficulty is concerned. It took me absolutely ages, and even now I’m not sure about the parsing of one or two of the answers. Who knows just why, since when I can understand the answer it seems straightforward enough; perhaps it’s because the definition is often cunningly disguised and when you do have an idea what it is the number of options is so great that you aren’t exactly led by the hand towards the right one.
Definitions underlined.
A lovely late Christmas present – a puzzle from Arachne to blog, enjoyable as ever. As usual, I’ll leave you to name your own favourites. Many thanks to Arachne. My last blog of … Read more >>
One for lovers of stage and screen.
The closing date for Beelzebub was postponed until today for the obvious festive reasons, hence the delayed blog post. I don’t have a great deal of notes as it’s been a fairly long … Read more >>
Oh dear, I thought Monday was supposed to be a nice gentle day here at the Indy, Wot’s Monk doing here??
Phew. Not a bit of leftover turkey or a stale mince pie in sight.
A very enjoyable puzzle – many thanks Paul. Favourites 19ac, 22ac, 27ac, 6dn, and 17dn.
My fellow blogger flashling commented that last week’s Everyman was harder than usual. I would echo that today. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram … Read more >>
Straightforward definitions but some of the constructions were tricky to parse. Thank you Poins.