Guardian 26,621 / Paul

A very enjoyable prize puzzle from Paul … … with a theme of Presidents of the USA. Here are the references I spotted: Obama in 9 across Carter in 10 across Eisenhower in … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,985 by CHALMIE

Nearly forgot to get the blog out as today is a holiday in Singapore and I was going about my day in Saturday mode before it struck me late evening that I am not a time traveler. I really wish I had taken this on, on time so that I could have done justice to Chalmie. In my unnecessary haste to solve this quickly and put it up, I had to use google sooner than I would have liked to for some of the answers. I do think that this puzzle from Chalmie only goes to reinforce the opinion that he is one setter guaranteed to serve up a stunner of a crossword. Thanks a ton to him.

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Financial Times 14,975 – Dante

Monday Prize Crossword / Jul 6, 2015

I found this crossword easier when writing the blog than when solving. Quite a few cryptic and double definitions held me up, can’t see why now.

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Financial Times 14,983 by GOZO

I found this very tricky.  I gave up trying to solve this unaided after an hour or more and spent the rest of the morning trawling Wikipedia.  Got there in the end!  Thank you Gozo.

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