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8 unclued answers – * clues with additional words which are anagrams (plus a letter) of associations to the unclued answers. Quite quirky and a new setter for me Clarence. A good mix … Read more >>
A fun prize puzzle from Shed – not too tough, and we didn’t spot any particular theme, but might well have missed something! CARBONADO was one of those satisfying clues where you work … Read more >>
A tasty offering from Qaos today…
When I was asked, at short notice, to stand in today I hoped that it would be something I could get my teeth into and I wasn’t disappointed to see that the setter … Read more >>
We cannot believe that it is time for us to blog a Phi again – where does the time go these days? We found this a fairly straightforward solve which was very … Read more >>
Hoskins has given us a puzzle to sink our teeth into this Thursday, the first of his puzzles that it has fallen to me to blog in a long time. I actually found … Read more >>
My first Guardian outing for some time on a rather chilly St Andrew’s day.
The puzzle can be found here.
Monday prize Crossword / Nov 20, 2017
Dante and Falcon may be the perfect Monday setters, Armonie could be one too.
Accessible, relatively easy and consistent.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 18, 2017
Thank you Julius for another fine puzzle to solve and blog. A couple of bits I don’t fully understand but no doubt they will be explained in due course.
We have a typically elegant Dac crossword today You know what you are going to get with Dac. Clues with very good surfaces, unambiguous parsing and entries that come from … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27367.
Ifor is an innovative and challenging setter, so it was good to see his name attached to this puzzle The preamble told us that "Across clues and entries are normal … Read more >>
I enjoyed this. Not too desperately difficult but there were some tricky bits. For example I only just realised about 26ac and was searching vainly on Google for some song that she performed.