The regular cruciverbal round-up of the month’s events. Find it to solve online or download and print at ft.com/crossword
Day: 25 January 2026
Independent on Sunday 1,874 by Coot
The puzzle is available to solve online or download here.
Guardian Quiptic 1366 by Pangakupu
Thank you to Pangakupu (whose Cryptic, by the way, I blogged last Thursday). Definitions are underlined in the clues.
Gemelo No. 21 – Half & Half
This is the first Gemelo “special” that calls upon the solver to manipulate the solutions in some unconventional fashion. The puzzle opens with these instructions:
Everyman 4,135
The puzzle may be found at https://observer.co.uk/puzzles/everyman/article/everyman-no-4135 in the interactive form, or at https://cdn.slowdownwiseup.co.uk/media/documents/obs.everyman.20260118.pdf as a pdf.