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*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone This was a puzzle in the style of Punk and other compilers who like to get a bit of humour and … Read more >>

*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a <=reversed Hom. = homophone The usual entertaining fare from Punk with some inventive cluing devices. As a beer fan, I quite liked 16. 24/8 … Read more >>

*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone There is (1 across) something special planned for Wednesday, so Dac has been moved to Monday. I thought this was a … Read more >>

*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone This was a very clever idea, with the across clues being cast as nonsense limericks, a form of verse popularized by … Read more >>

Other people will probably disagree, but I found this a fairly fiendish Anax puzzle. The structure of the grid with all the down clues in the top-half having only their second letters (which … Read more >>

This was a well-written puzzle with some excellent surface readings (e.g. 14,4). It was mostly quite accessible, although a few (such as 1 and 7) required a little research to understand the parsing. … Read more >>

This was a relatively gentle start-the-week puzzle from Raich with lots of well-constructed clues. There were a few that needed a bit of thought e.g. 24 and 6. Across 1. Bill, controversial broadcaster, … Read more >>

I found this at the harder end of the Quixote spectrum, with quite a lot of fairly unusual words. Clues like 13 and 5 were tough to get without most of the crossing … Read more >>

A very enjoyable puzzle with a huge amount of wit and inventiveness. 18 and 22 could perhaps be described as classic “saucy postcard” Punk clues. Across 7. Put one’s foot down on fraud, … Read more >>

*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I thought this was an excellent and well-balanced puzzle with a nice mixture of clues. There were plenty of easier clues … Read more >>

*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I breezed through most of this but then got stuck on a couple of clues, which took me a long while … Read more >>

I greet announcements that the BBC has secured the rights to cover Formula One with a groan, so you can probably gather it’s not among my all time favourite sports. Therefore, I wasn’t … Read more >>

*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I found the top half of this somewhat harder than the bottom, with 5 particularly holding me up (mainly because I … Read more >>

*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone An inventive and accessible crossword from Morph. There was occasionally some eccentric and groan-worthy cluing (such as in 1 across and … Read more >>

A mixture of nice &lits and a few venerable old chestnuts (like 22 and 25) from Quixote. It was mostly on the easy side, although one or two like the superbly deceiving 16 … Read more >>