Financial Times 15,526 by JULIUS

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Puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 7, 2026 Link to puzzle: https://www.ft.com/content/5beb51eb-e18c-4b06-b490-1a897e349fb2 Degree of difficulty: Moderately-easy A very fair test: just right for a Saturday when there might be some solvers who … Read more >>

Guardian Quiptic 1,407/Pangakupu

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I am still slightly glum about the loss of the Independent daily cryptic from the paper. Pangakupu’s alter ego Phi was a regular Friday contributor to that series of puzzles, so I cheered up when my first Quiptic blog after that loss turned out to be one from our New Zealand based setter.

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Everyman 4,176

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A good sound Everyman which I found a bit easier than usual. Often I get hung up on some answer, but not in this case. All the usual Everyman trademarks are there and are coloured in the diagram.


Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (homophone, hidden, containment, anagram, juxtaposition, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green. Homophones indicated “like this” and deletions [like this].


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Enigmatic Variations No.1770 – Discovery by Elgar
		

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“Completing the four unclued perimetrical names (from US, J ROVED LONG for the unchecked letters) and the three barred-off cells will allow solvers to highlight two locations, one alphabetical and one “numerical” (27 cells in total), thereby illustrating a historical DISCOVERY. Chambers (2016) is recommended; Collins and other sources will confirm 34.”


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