The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3493.
Month: September 2013
Independent on Sunday 1230/Nitsy
Can’t remember seeing a Nitsy puzzle for ages. Took me a while to get into it, mainly because I hadn’t done one of his for a long time and I always take a … Read more >>
Independent Saturday Prize Puzzle 8399 – Scorpion 14/09/13
An interesting themed puzzle from Scorpion, our only quibble being that the four 3-letter gateway clues were perhaps a little too easy? However, having solved them very quickly (and having checked that our … Read more >>
Guardian Prize 26,053 / Brendan
I love Brendan’s themed puzzles and so was very pleased to see that I had this one to blog. The solutions went in fairly easily, except the crucial 15ac, which was actually my … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations 1086 Dance with Two Cheats by Shark
This week – extra letters in the wordplay spelling out a line form a verse and its source. Two further lines from the verse then must be applied to the completed grid to … Read more >>
Independent 8,404 by Phi
The usual nice crossword from Phi, with plenty of the good clues you expect from him. Sorry this is a bit late, which it is for two reasons: although yesterday all was in … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 26058 Nutmeg
A crossword to ease one into the Saturday Prize Puzzle (and back into Crosswordland for me) from a setter who usually sets the Quiptic. Thanks to Nutmeg. (There are quite a number of proper names in … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,423 by Bradman
Highly recommended Across 1 START-UP establishing new business STAR (celeb) PUT< (set about) 5 GRENADE weapon (DANGER)* E[xplode] 9 RACER fast car ACE (great performer) in RR (posh car) … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1228
Terrific puzzle from the prince of the fallen angels Across 1 Endless bad beer, not weak for local soak SIPE SWIPER bad beer minus W (weak) and last letter … Read more >>
Financial Times no.14,422 by Alberich
I can’t remember the last time a Thursday FT gave me so much trouble. I had a tremendous tussle with this excellent offering from Alberich, with the NW corner in particular putting up … Read more >>
Independent 8403 / Nestor
As it is a Thursday, we were expecting a challenge. However, we found this to be less tricky than your average Thursday indy puzzle. We did need to resort to an electronic search … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic N° 26,057 by Tramp
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26057.
Financial Times 14,413 – Dante
Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 9 Another fairly typical (and enjoyable) crossword from the Shropshire Lad – did I say Lad? 🙂 One can find it here. Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,412 by Cincinnus
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 7, 2013 I found this trickier than the typical Cincinnus puzzle with its somewhat obscure words (MATCHLOCKS and CURASSOW for example). My top clues are … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,421 by IO
Very entertaining and a good level of difficulty, neither too easy nor too hard, just right. There are lots of numbers in the clues and a nice mix, some were references to other clues … Read more >>