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Headmistress has written quite a lot – 585 pages I hear. So I suppose we should be thankful this annual giant puzzle is still only 27×27 instead of something much larger. The puzzle … Read more >>

Private Eye snuck out a 1-week issue so by now most of you will be stuck into the Christmas monster.  I’m going to start just as soon as I’ve posted this blog. Solving: … Read more >>

Because the Eye crossword allows us the luxury of over a week to solve it I often wait till the mood takes me. This time I felt like solving it straight away … … Read more >>

During the first half of solving this there seemed to be a large number of anagrams .  Then after the half-time orange, I seemed to find charade after charade It was just the … Read more >>

There is the usual swathe of political subject matter in the clues, but besides the grid centring on Jeremy Corbyn, there isn’t much in the answers. Favourite clue must be the long anagram … Read more >>

Another fairly routine Eye puzzle this time. Nothing hugely topical or interesting to call out. Solving was easy enough for the first pass which ended with much more than half  the grid filled:  … Read more >>

… again. There is a central issue in this crossword. Solving was almost a clean sweep. I attempted but failed to cold solve the two down clues in the leftmost column: 1 and … Read more >>

I found this one of the most tricky Eye puzzles for a while.  Looking back at it I can’t quite put my finger on why. From the off I had trouble, reading through … Read more >>

A straightforward Cyclops, quickly solved. He’s keeping up his usual standard with only a little bit of mild scatology in this one   Across 7 TEEPEE Shelter provided by area of golf course … Read more >>