A straightforward, but clever and elegant crossword. Thanks, Redshank.
Financial Times 14,987 – Dante
Monday Prize Crossword / Jul 20, 2015
Dante as Dante can be. Meaning: mostly easy but then he’ll have you to start thinking about how to fully complete the puzzle.
Financial Times 14,986 by Dogberry
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 18, 2015
Financial Times 14,995 by MONK
I started off quite easily in the top-left, which made me double check that it was actually by Monk. Things soon got back to normal and there followed a satisfying struggle to finish. My apologies for the late posting, the morning has been an endless sequence of interruptions. There is certainly a Nina in here somewhere, I will start hunting for it now and update the post when I find it. Thank you Monk, excellent as always.
Guardian 26,636 – Nutmeg
After yesterday’s expert duffing-up by Vlad I was expecting (or hoping for?) something a little gentler today, but I found this one pretty hard too. However, it was soundly and accurately clued (apart … Read more >>
Independent 8982 / Quixote
Our first thoughts when we saw the puzzle was the rather odd looking grid – the same thoughts we had yesterday. This time however, there was no apparent reason for the fact that … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1395: Dominance by Kruger
Preamble: Most clues contain either wordplay yielding an extra or missing letter or a single-letter misprint in the definition (approximately equal numbers of each). In order, the extra/missing/ correct letters give a quotation … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,994 by ARMONIE
Many thanks Turbolegs for stepping into the breach – Gaufrid
Financial Times 14,994 / Armonie
It would appear that the scheduled blogger has been unable to be with us today. I will try to get a quick analysis of the clues posted early this evening (when I’ve solve … Read more >>
Guardian 26,635 by Vlad
Sorry I’m not able to give full justice to this great crossword
Independent 8,981 / Hieroglyph
Hieroglyph is occupying this week’s Tuesday slot, with one of his themed puzzles for us to crack. Like the themed puzzle of his that I blogged on bird species, there are a couple … Read more >>
Independent 8980/mystery setter (update: it’s Raich)
Bonjour! Not quite sure what’s occurring here, because in the online version it was unnumbered and the compiler wasn’t shown. So I hope I’ve blogged the right puzzle on the right day. A … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 819 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.) Thanks to Pan for a puzzle … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 819 with Picture Quiz
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Thanks to Pan for a puzzle that’s par for the Quiptic genre. Definitions are … Read more >>
Guardian 26,634 by Rufus
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26634.