Nothing hard here.
Year: 2014
Independent 8711 by Donk
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone This was a bit of a fiasco for me. I couldn’t get into the style of clues and gave up with … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 774/Nutmeg
Nutmeg is now a regular setter of the Guardian cryptic, but she’s not forgotten how to do the ‘easy’ stuff. I liked this one. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition … Read more >>
Guardian 26,365 by Rufus
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26365.
Private Eye / Cyclops 529 Stuffed octopus
One of those solves where half the grid was filled on the first pass, and for a change there wasn’t anything hugely troubling at the end. The last couple took a bit of thought but … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1,279
All very smooth and pleasing this week. I didn’t get an uninterrupted session to work on this, but instead steadily picked away during the week, which actually worked quite well. I just had … Read more >>
Everyman 3544
Hello all, Struggling with internet access, so the following may be a little garbled. Apologies if it doesn’t make much sense. A pleasant enough puzzle, I thought, with at least one new usage … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1281 / Nitsy (7/9/14)
Nitsy only provides us with two or three puzzles each year and, looking back, I see that for the last five years there has always been one in September, though the previous ones … Read more >>
Azed 2205
We had a plain competition Azed this week where one of the clues was a simple definition that yielded an entry to be clued as part of the competition Bloggers over the … Read more >>
Guardian 26,358 / Puck
A very difficult prize crossword, but with all of Puck’s usual wit and ingenuity. The theme is ANTEATERs, and the word ANTEATER appears hidden in the centre of the grid: … if you … Read more >>
Independent 8704 by Nestor (Saturday Prize Puzzle 6 Sept 2014)
A third Nestor in a row on my watch … maybe the Indy editor has settled his contributors into a 5-weekly cycle that, coincidentally, matches our Saturday Prize blogging rota? Not that I’m complaining … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations No. 1137: Endeavour by Shark
A tricky setter this week in the shape of Shark, with a couple of Listeners and a few EVs and Inquisitors under his belt. Here we had some extra words in clues which … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,725 by BRADMAN
A gentle offering this from Bradman – my best friend on a Friday. Relatively straightforward with very little left to chance. I needed help parsing 16ac and 18 ac but other that everything else went in pretty quickly. Thanks Bradman, for an apt conclusion to this week of relatively easy FT grids.
Independent 8709 / Klingsor
When we saw that it was Klingsor we expected some tricky clues and were not disappointed. There were even a few that we had to ponder over again when we came to write … Read more >>
Guardian 26,363 by Tramp
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26363.