It felt like Bradman has been possessed by Io. This has got to be the toughest Bradman challenge I have had to deal with yet. Cant say I enjoyed it much, especially since I had to use external help that I keenly loathe. Nevertheless, I do hope other solvers did good justice and had a better time than I did in cracking this.
Guardian 26,692 by Paul
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26692.
Guardian 26,691 / Arachne
This is beginning to be embarrassing – my third consecutive Arachne blog. [It’s a good job my fellow-bloggers know how our rota works and that there’s no chicanery on my part.] It’s difficult … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,050 by ORENSE
Very straightforward. Thanks, Orense.
Independent 9037 / Rorschach
Rorschach is a setter who appears in the Independent less frequently than many others. Rorschach’s puzzles tend to generate quite a lot of comment. There was a lot going on … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,041 – Crux
Monday Prize Crossword / Sep 21, 2015
It’s been a while since we had a Crux crossword but here he is again, with the inclusion of quite a few cryptic definitions.
Financial Times 15,040 by Mudd
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 19, 2015 This seems a fairly typical Mudd with a good number of double definitions including my clue of the week 23a (STRIKER). My other … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,049 by WANDERER
I enjoyed this. I thought this was a nice level of difficulty; the answers did not give themselves away, but it was not a fight to the death like some of the Wednesday puzzles can be (setters – you know who you are!). Thanks Wanderer.
Guardian 26,690 by Puck
Enjoyable, but a bit of a struggle…
Independent 9,036 by Quixote
As one always gets from Quixote, an utterly satisfactory, fairly easy but finally tricky, challenge. I went steadily and smoothly through this and then took a long time to finish it off with HABILIMENT, VICE and STELAE my last ones in.
Definitions are underlined.
Inquisitor 1404: Rise and Fall by Nutmeg
I have a soft spot for Nutmeg‘s puzzles; typical clues are polished gems. Preamble: Down answers are entered with one letter out of place, that letter being moved to the shaded upper/lower … Read more >>
Guardian 26,689 – Otterden
At the risk of repeating myself, I am still not warming to Otterden’s style. Although there are some nice ideas here, but there are just too many examples where, for me, the cryptic … Read more >>
Independent 9035 / Scorpion
Thanks Scorpion for a good Tuesday workout. We needed a search for our last one in – 23d and then kicked ourselves. Had we realised earlier that it was a pangram we … Read more >>
Financial Times 15048 Armonie
(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.) Thanks to Armonie, for an enjoyable … Read more >>
Financial Times 15048 with Picture Quiz
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Thanks to Armonie, for an enjoyable and relaxing puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the … Read more >>