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Amoeba S&B 2022 Puzzle

Wed November 2, 2022 at 3:28 pm by mc_rapper67

I bumped into Amoeba at the York S&B event last weekend…

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Categories S&B Puzzles 13 Comments

Independent 11,247 by Serpent (Saturday Puzzle 29 October 2022)

Sat October 29, 2022 at 10:00 am by mc_rapper67

It’s been nearly three years since I had a Saturday Serpent to blog…too long, but ‘them’s the breaks’ in the Indy Saturday blogging schedule…anyway, there is usually something devious going on with a Serpent puzzle…

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Categories Independent 18 Comments

Cyclops 738 – Accursed Assets

Mon October 17, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

Cyclops is on good form this week – and doesn’t seem to have been overtaken by the fast-moving events of the last week or so…

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Categories Private Eye/Cyclops 12 Comments

Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,883 by Paul (8 October 2022)

Sat October 15, 2022 at 6:43 pmSat October 15, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

Paul in mercurial multi-linkage mode this Saturday Prize puzzle, with no fewer than four linked pairs of answers, and a triple-link…

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Categories Guardian 55 Comments

Enigmatic Variations No. 1559: Save by Vismut

Thu October 13, 2022 at 10:44 amThu October 13, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

Is Vismut referring to the current cost-of-living crisis, and urging us to try and SAVE a few pennies?…

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Categories Enigmatic Variations 9 Comments

Independent 11,217 by Knut (Saturday Puzzle 24 September 2022)

Sat September 24, 2022 at 10:00 am by mc_rapper67

Some nice stuff from Knut today…with a couple of obscure (for me) references that needed a bit of e-research…

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Categories Independent 13 Comments

Cyclops 736 – Fake Principles

Mon September 19, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

I can imagine Cyclops, along with many other setters, is having to rummage through his standard references and update/delete a few items…and recent events may have overtaken the normal cadence of the setting/editing/publication cycle…

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Categories Private Eye/Cyclops 16 Comments

Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,859 by Picaroon (10 September 2022)

Sun September 18, 2022 at 5:52 pmSat September 17, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

Picaroon provides this week’s Prize challenge…

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Categories Guardian 49 Comments

Enigmatic Variations No. 1555: The Rules Of The Game by Ifor

Thu September 15, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

The RULES OF THE GAME for the EV series seem to have changed, with it disappearing from the online Telegraph puzzle site and becoming a ‘paper-only’ puzzle…I hope most of you were still able to get your fix…

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Categories Enigmatic Variations 5 Comments

Cyclops 734 – Electoral Donkey

Mon August 22, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

By my reckoning, Cyclops only has one more puzzle after this to use up all his BoJo references, before he has to switch to either LiTr or RiSu… (I hope their marketing people are working on better memes than those!…)

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Categories Private Eye/Cyclops 10 Comments

Independent 11,187 by Tyrus (Saturday Puzzle 20 August 2022)

Sat August 20, 2022 at 10:00 am by mc_rapper67

It is almost ten years since I first blogged a Tyrus Indy puzzle, or ‘prize puzzle’, as they were in those days…tempus fugit.

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Categories Independent 9 Comments

Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,835 by Paul (13 Aug 2022)

Sat August 20, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

A Saturday Prize puzzle, so the setter is most likely to begin with a Pee – Picaroon, Paul and Philistine seem to fill most of the recent slots between them, with the occasional Vlad, Imogen or Brendan to disrupt the pattern…this week, a Paul…

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Categories Guardian 50 Comments

Enigmatic Variations No. 1551: Opinion by Chalicea

Thu August 18, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

After five weeks of the recent ‘Elementary’ themed EV series, we are back to normal…or whatever constitutes ‘normal’ in an EV! My OPINION on seeing it was a Chalicea this week was that it should be at the ‘gentler’ end of the EV spectrum, and would probably be educational and/or entertaining in some measure…

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Categories Enigmatic Variations 3 Comments

Cyclops 732 – Etonian Philistine

Mon July 25, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

Some totally coincidental, no doubt, topical references in this fortnight’s Cyclops…

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Categories Private Eye/Cyclops 9 Comments

Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,811 by Philistine (16 July 2022)

Sun July 24, 2022 at 12:55 pmSat July 23, 2022 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

Some neat touches along the way from Philistine this week, although I didn’t help myself by taking a couple of minor detours…

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Categories Guardian 48 Comments
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