This puzzle almost COMPLETEly defeated me – until a PDM at the 11th hour of the 10th day after publication, just before the submission deadline…
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Cyclops 820 – 2025 Xmas Special
And so this is Christmas, and what have you solved?…another year over, a new Cyclops Xmas jumbo special just begun…
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 29,888 by Brummie ( 27 December 2025)
I was slightly nervous that I might be getting the Grauniad Christmas Special by Maskarade as the Prize puzzle to blog, but it seems the new normal is to have a ‘regular’ Prize puzzle and the Maskarade as a ‘bonus’ on the side…
Enigmatic Variations No. 1723: Order, Order by Kcit
Kcit is calling for ORDER, ORDER in the EV House…we EV solvers can be an unruly lot sometimes…
Cyclops 818 – Old-guard Taxability
Cyclops has a swipe at all corners of the political spectrum this fortnight, and also finds time for a little self-reflection…
Spectator 2725 – Tandemonium? by CheeseCracker
This is my first Spectator puzzle blog, although I have been solving (and submitting) them for several years now…and have been lucky enough to win a few prizes along the way…
Guardian Genius 268 by Odo
A debut Genius from Odo…whose real identity was revealed to me at the York get-together…
S&B 2025 – Do you know your ABCs? by Guinevere
Guinevere has kindly created a jumbo puzzle for solvers at the York get-together. For anyone who wants to solve it before reading the blog, the puzzle is here.
Enigmatic Variations No. 1715: The Wrong Sort by Wicksparrow
We have the WRONG SORT of something from Wicksparrow this week…maybe it was the wrong sort of week for my blogging turn to fall?!
Guardian Saturday Prize Crossword 29,817 by Brendan (4 October 2025)
I’ve blogged some interesting and challenging Prize puzzles by Brendan in the last couple of years, usually with a theme or a twist to the tale…so what does this one hold for us?…