Guardian 26,334 / Paul

As ever a very entertaining crossword from Paul. This wasn’t a difficult solve, but great fun. My favourite clues were 23a,26a and 13a, which are both excellent. The only slight oddity here was … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,701 by GAFF

A sharp intake of breath preceded the whitening of the knuckles, as I gripped the arms of my chair in sheer trepidation at seeing the name of the setter today. And so it happened, the tussle with my nemesis Gaff. And at the end of it all, I can (barely) stand up and aver that I fought like a man, relentless in the face of a barrage of one inscrutable clue after another.

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Independent 8685 / Phi

Thanks Phi for our usual Phi-day phun!     The enumeration helped enormously for 1/4/7/13/18. Mind you, whenever we see TAR in a crossword we always think of SAILOR – so that helped … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,691 – Dante

Monday Prize Crossword/Aug 4 A familiar Monday solve. Only a couple of the cryptic definitions in the mid-east held me up (but not for too long). 23ac was a new word to me, … Read more >>

Independent 8,682 by Hob

As the laws of probability dictate, it sometimes happens that it falls to me, the most inappropriate person, to blog this sort of crossword. Hob has given us a crossword based on the 20 … Read more >>