Never knowingly undersolved
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I don’t know what’s happened to the scheduled blogger today but here is a quick, and very belated, analysis of the clues. Across 7 Kid is the first person in Paris to get … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3645.
Lots of new words but I suppose that should never be a surprise with Azed. Was stuck on 16D (a laxative) for a while and then conveniently became unstuck.
Apart from the hard nuts (Anax and Nimrod) evidence is accumulating that since the Saturday puzzle stopped being a Prize puzzle the level of difficulty has gone down a bit. Which is fine by me as … Read more >>
After blogging a difficult Paul puzzle on Thursday and battling with a fiendish one from Enigmatist on Friday, I was wondering what on earth was in store for us on Saturday. It turned … Read more >>
A puzzle by Eclogue this week – four cells containing clashes, the wordplay in each clue having an extra letter and the first line of a verse to find. If that’s not enough … Read more >>
Turbolegs didn’t have time to prepare a blog before flying home from his holiday today so I am a late stand-in. My initial reaction when solving this puzzle was that it didn’t appear … Read more >>
The usual very pleasing crossword from Phi, with the musical references that we have come to expect. He is always easy enough to understand once a clue is solved, but not I find always all that easy to get one’s teeth into. Perhaps this is because his definitions are so well-concealed.
Definitions underlined.
It’s many months since I blogged a Tramp puzzle and so I was delighted to land this one. I was a bit put out at first by the capital letters in 14,10, 20ac … Read more >>
A little too clever for me, with much of the parsing done after the fact – I’m still unsure on 8dn, 17dn and 21dn. Favourites were 13ac, 21ac, and 18dn. Thanks, Puck
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An interesting but tricky puzzle from Rodriguez today. We tend to tackle crosswords in numerical order, and we had considerable difficulty with several of the across clues, particularly on the right hand side … Read more >>
An early blog for a change
Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 8, 2016
For the second time in a row, I found the Dante offering a lot more challenging than the Rufus puzzle (at another place).