A pleasant, if not too taxing, solve from Morph today – no obvious tricks, but it was a treat…(oops, I’m a week early with the Halloween puns…)
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Cyclops 687 – Washington Escapade
It is all a bit doom and gloom from Cyclops this fortnight…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1455: Golden Oldies by Skylark
GOLDEN OLDIES suggests to me a Sunday afternoon radio show on Local FM with DJs Smashie and Nicey…what does it mean to Skylark?…
Cyclops 685 – Cherish Nibbles
Is it just me, or is Cyclops getting smuttier in his clueing lately?!…
Independent 10,589 by Tees (Saturday Puzzle 19 September 2020)
I don’t seem to have solved/blogged a Tees Saturday Indy since Xmas Eve 2016, so nice to lock horns again!
Enigmatic Variations No. 1451: The Beagle Has Landed by Chalicea
As far as we know, the ‘Beagle 2′ Mars rover landed, but never became operational – maybe it got stuck in the caramel layer…and it was named after Darwin’s ship ‘HMS Beagle‘, which landed him safely on many shores…
Cyclops 683 – Appraisal Stinko
Obviously this puzzle would have been set and commissioned well before the recent exams fiascos, but there are some prescient coincidences…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1447: Theme Parks by Kruger
A delightful puzzle from Kruger, whose monicker is reminiscent of a famous ‘park’ in South Africa…
Independent 10,559 by Knut (Saturday Puzzle 15 August 2020)
A ‘gubernatorial’ feel to this puzzle, with three references to ‘presidents’, plus Mao, Merkel, Her Majesty and Charlie…and also some pop royalty with Tina Turner and Yoko…and all that just in the clues!
Cyclops 681 – Infection Price Tag
Typical Cyclopsean fare, book-ended by two references to ‘members’, neither of which are MPs…but also two uncharacteristic setting/editing slips, at 1A and 20D?
Enigmatic Variations No. 1443: Girl Sang Hymn by Piccadilly
Just like London buses, you wait ages for a Piccadilly to blog (EV 949 in 2011, EV 1291 in 2017), and then three come along in quick succession (EV 1419 in February this year, EV 1431 in May and now EV 1443). Where is this particular bus taking us?…
Independent 10,529 by Dalibor (Saturday Puzzle 11 July 2020)
An enjoyable puzzle from Dalibor today, with a few ‘might-have-been-topical’ clues?…(if it hadn’t have been for those pesky Covids…)…and some suspicious looking ‘unches’ around the perimeter…
Cyclops 679 – Stir-Crazy Cabinet Meeting
We are well into ‘post-Covid’ setting now, with ‘lockdown’ and ‘coronavirus’ both getting a mention in the clues. Lockdown frustration still seems to be getting the better of Cyclops, with lots of sexual … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations No. 1439: Peaceful Coexistence? by Wickball
A pretty complicated preamble, and a pretty complicated solve! Could ‘PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE’ be a (wishful) reference to lockdown life for many of us?!
Independent 10,499 by Monk (Saturday Puzzle 6 June 2020)
It hardly seems like yesterday (Oct 2018 actually) that the Indy was tipping over the 10,000 mark, and here are at just under 10,500…tempus fugit. A quick start, slow middle and chewy end from Monk today, at least from your blogger’s perspective…