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It’s another in the Clue Two sequence. How will eXternal follow up the Pac-Man maze?   Preamble: The unclued top row gives a thematic location. An answer to one down clue per column … Read more >>

Phi is a rather prolific setter here, about 4 puzzles a year of late – many more in other outlets.   Preamble: The two unclued entries are to be unjumbled to form thematic … Read more >>

Is this the start of Ladies’ month? (About this time last year we had consecutive puzzles from Nutmeg, Chalicea, Vismut and Skylark.)   Preamble: Corrections to be made to single letter misprints in … Read more >>

Haven’t seen Lato here for a year or so.   Preamble: Thematic clues are listed in alphabetical order of their solutions which must be paired off and entered incompletely where they fit. Extra … Read more >>

Ifor – can usually be relied upon for many fine clues, often with few redundant words in them. I’m looking forward to it.   Preamble: Clues to one entry in each odd-numbered row … Read more >>

Chalicea – so the clues are likely to be gentle. The asymmetric grid alone signals a search during the endgame.   Preamble: To depict an aftermath, solvers must highlight nine answers (a total … Read more >>

Fifth puzzle from Vismut here. Very short title, gives nothing away. Grid not quite symmetric – middle row.   Preamble: Extra letters generated by the wordplay of 25 clues, not to be entered, … Read more >>

Phi – not seen for a while.   Preamble: Answers to italicised clues are entered in a letter-substitution code. The clue answer is composed of letters in a name, and the entry (also … Read more >>

A third puzzle from Penumbra, averaging about one a year.   Preamble: All clues contain a word that must be removed before solving. Initial letters of those words, in clue order, give a … Read more >>

Nudnix – a setter new to me.   Preamble: The theme involves two events – one possibly apocryphal – that happened on two (unrelated) visits. In the first, 1dn travelled East to 20; … Read more >>

Serpent: no bars, no numbers just like the previous one I blogged last month, but otherwise normal (no corrections/drop-outs, no thematic way to enter answers).   Preamble: Clues are presented in the usual … Read more >>

Another puzzle from Ifor, only a couple of months after his previous one in late March.   Preamble: Down clues are in normal order, and their answers are entered normally. Each contains a … Read more >>

Another blast from the past – last seen Charybdis here in June 12017. Another short preamble …   Preamble: Six clue answers must be amended before entry in the grid, with removed letters … Read more >>

Haven’t seen Augeas here for nearly 5 years. And it’s a very short preamble …   Preamble: Solvers should fill the blank cells, then highlight someone, and what (cryptically) she saw (30 cells). … Read more >>