Day: 16 June 2026
Guardian Cryptic crossword No 30,034 by Vlad
A tricky solve, with many fun clues and several bits of parsing that needed more time at the end. Many thanks to Vlad for the puzzle.
Independent 12,383 / Deri
Deri is another compiler whose work I have had little opportunity to solve and/or blog.
Financial Times 18,401 by PETO
Peto often lands on my blogging rotation, so I would imagine that by now I would not find these puzzles quite so tough to parse out as I did this one . . .