Cyclops seems to be a bit down-in-the-dumps this fortnight…
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Enigmatic Variations No. 1575 – Follow The Instructions By Kcit
As I may have mentioned before, my natural instinct on seeing a ‘carte blanche’ used to be to avert my eyes and walk in the other direction to avoid it…but I have gradually persuaded myself that I must at least try them…and needs must when one falls on my blogging slot!
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,979 by Philistine (28 January 2023)
My New Year’s resolution must have been to blog more Philistine puzzles, having coincided with his last Saturday Prize one at the cusp of the old/new year…and his first of the new one…
Cyclops 744 – Pathetic Economics
Some (reasonably) topical targets in this fortnight’s puzzle from Cyclops…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1571 – Dotty Links by Wickball
This is the third Wickball EV I have blogged, and the previous two were pretty chewy!…What can DOTTY LINKS mean? A golf reference? Someone nicknamed Dotty?…
Independent 11,307 by Quince (Saturday Puzzle 7 January 2023)
After almost exactly 12 years and 128 Saturday Independent blogs, I have decided it is time to ‘pass on the baguette‘, as Matt Lucas recently put it…and this was a pleasant solve to finish on, although I needed some matriarchal assistance…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,955 by Philistine (31 December 2022)
Philistine rings out the old, with the last Grauniad puzzle of 2022…a relatively gentle solve, compared to the mind-stretcher of the Christmas special the previous week!
Cyclops 742 – Anecdotal Largesse
After Saturday’s Grauniad Brummie, a Private Eye puzzle by Cyclops, his naughty alter ego – Dr Jekyll to Brummie’s Mr Hyde…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,931 by Brummie (3 December 2022)
A few weeks ago I was ‘double-Serpent-ed’, with an Indy and an EV to blog in the same weekend…and this week I am double Brummie-d/Cyclops-ed, with this Grauniad puzzle and a Private Eye Cyclops to cover…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1567: Condition by Eclogue
Eclogue has a CONDITION for us this week – let’s hope it isn’t too serious, what with all the waiting lists and nurses’ strikes…
Independent 11,277 by Monk (Saturday Puzzle 3 December 2022)
A tough workout from Monk today…
Cyclops 740 – Annexation Plebiscite
Cyclops doing what Cyclops does…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,907 by Vlad (5 November 2022)
It’s a Vlad Saturday Prize puzzle, and the first word of the first clue is ‘Impale…’! Did anyone get skewered by this puzzle?…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1563: Belief Systems by Serpent
I was double-Serpented on the weekend of the York get-together, with his Indy puzzle to blog on the Saturday, and then this EV on the Sunday…if I had a BELIEF SYSTEM that included previous lives, I would suspect I had done something wrong in one of them!
Guardian Genius 232 by Pasquale
A second Genius of the year from the ubiquitous and prolific Don, after number 225 back in March…