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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Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,883 by Paul (8 October 2022)
Paul in mercurial multi-linkage mode this Saturday Prize puzzle, with no fewer than four linked pairs of answers, and a triple-link…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1559: Save by Vismut
Is Vismut referring to the current cost-of-living crisis, and urging us to try and SAVE a few pennies?…
Independent 11,217 by Knut (Saturday Puzzle 24 September 2022)
Some nice stuff from Knut today…with a couple of obscure (for me) references that needed a bit of e-research…
Cyclops 736 – Fake Principles
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…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,859 by Picaroon (10 September 2022)
Picaroon provides this week’s Prize challenge…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1555: The Rules Of The Game by Ifor
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…
Cyclops 734 – Electoral Donkey
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!…)
Independent 11,187 by Tyrus (Saturday Puzzle 20 August 2022)
It is almost ten years since I first blogged a Tyrus Indy puzzle, or ‘prize puzzle’, as they were in those days…tempus fugit.
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,835 by Paul (13 Aug 2022)
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…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1551: Opinion by Chalicea
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…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 28,811 by Philistine (16 July 2022)
Some neat touches along the way from Philistine this week, although I didn’t help myself by taking a couple of minor detours…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1547: Elementary II: Rising Costs by Hedge-Sparrow
My esteemed fellow-blogger Mister Sting pondered last week as to whether ‘EV 1546 Elementary I…‘ might be the start of a series – and this would seem to be borne out by the appearance of ‘Elementary II’ this week…
Independent 11,157 by Bluth (Saturday Puzzle 16 July 2022)
My second Saturday Bluth in quick order (although that means they are ten weeks apart)…and I made pretty hard work of it…