Andrew

I started off on Everyman in The Observer, and began solving Azed while I was a student at Cambridge (reading maths) shortly after it started. I do the Guardian puzzle most days and others sporadically. In real life I work as a software developer (still in Cambridge), and for non-crossword recreation play the piano and am involved in amateur theatre.

Azed 2381

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As often happens with my Azed solving these days, I filled in most of the grid quite quickly, with the last half-dozen clues taking considerably longer. There are a couple that I can’t … Read more >>

Guardian 27,407 – Imogen

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Quite a tricky offering from Imogen today, with some obscurities in both answers and wordplay. My first breakthrough was the long answer at 26a, but there were still a few hurdles along the … Read more >>

Guardian 27,400 – Pan

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It’ll be interesting to see what sort of pattern of setters we get for “Easy Monday” after Rufus’s retirement. Chifonie last week, and now Pan, who has been more of a Quiptic setter, … Read more >>

Guardian 27,391 – Screw

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It’s a pleasure to have one of Screw’s relatively rare appearances for my last blog of the year. Good fun as always, with some slightly tricky parsings, and quite a few well-concealed definitions, … Read more >>

Azed 2375

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This was a puzzle where I got about half-way through without too much trouble, and then ground to a halt and took much longer to do the rest. Looking back I see that … Read more >>

Guardian 27,362 – Paul

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A superb puzzle from Paul that revealed its secrets satisfyingly and not too quickly. I was rather surprised to find, after getting a few answers in, that there seemed to be a theme … Read more >>