An excellent challenge from Wanderer, keeping in style with earlier offerings. I found the parsing for several clues annoyingly admirable. 🙂 Hunted for the nina without much success.
Year: 2016
Independent 9,318 by Tees
Tees has been kind to us today. Yes, the odd classical etc reference, but all fairly gentle. I wouldn’t say that I whizzed through this, but certainly it was less daunting than it might have been. And all well-executed, so far as I can see.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
Financial Times 15,328 by DOGBERRY
4 puzzles for the price of one
Guardian 26,972 / Paul
I don’t know why I was solving this at around 4:30am! Well I do, I awoke early and decided to see who I was going to blog today. Whilst the puzzle was printing, I solved … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,319 – Falcon
Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 15, 2016
One can never qualify a Falcon crossword as really hard but this one struck me as relatively challenging compared to most of his output.
Financial Times 15,318 by Rosa Klebb
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 13, 2016
Financial Times 15,327 by GOZO
A lovely puzzle from Gozo, a pleasure to solve and blog. Â Thank you.
Guardian Cryptic 26,971 by Picaroon
One for fans of container clues
Independent 9317 / Dac
We look forward to a classic solve when we’re tackling a Wednesday Dac, but unfortunately we found this one a little disappointing. However, we can’t quite put a finger on why we feel … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1451: Doctor’s Orders by Charybdis
Preamble: Misprints occur in 19 down clues. The correct letters spell out most of a quotation from a well-known TV series. Both 6-letter words in the specific episode’s title are to be removed, … Read more >>
Independent 9,316 / Wiglaf
It was Wiglaf’s latest puzzle that lay in store for me this Tuesday morning. I found this one to be a very enjoyable, medium-difficulty solve. I suspected early on that I would probably … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,326 by GAFF
Thematic fun from Gaff today and I found this one rather tougher than the usual Tuesday fare.
Guardian Cryptic 26,970 by Nutmeg
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26970.
Guardian 26,969 / Rufus
Here’s Rufus, with an entetaining medley of double and cryptic definitions and some neat anagrams, with lovely surfaces, as ever, to launch us into the week. Thanks, Rufus – I enjoyed it. Across 9 … Read more >>
Independent 9315/Alchemi
I have to admit that I found this tough (and I’m not even going to say ‘tough for a Monday puzzle’ because we’ve gone beyond that). But that could just be me not … Read more >>