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Apologies for the slightly tardy posting. I’ve only just managed to finish this one, though I think that’s more down to my own disorganisation this week, rather than this being an unusually challenging … Read more >>

With only three entries during my first, very quick, pass through the clues I thought I might struggle with this one but subsequent, more careful, perusal paid dividends and the grid was filled … Read more >>

Quite a challenging week, I thought, though I did make life difficult for myself by absent-mindedly writing in SKIP at 23 across like a chump. It helped to know your Samoan currencies, as … Read more >>

This one took me a little longer than usual though progress was always steady apart from a slight hold-up towards the end in the SE corner (though, from what I am led to … Read more >>

Probably somewhere in the middle of the difficulty range this week, I seemed to find. We’ve reached a bit of a landmark, with a nice round puzzle number, but I didn’t spot any … Read more >>

This one seemed to be over rather quickly, with many entries going in during my first pass through the clues (there would have been more but some clues seemed to be too easy … Read more >>

This one seemed quite hard at first, but things did fall into place steadily enough. Lots of nice long anagrams to work through, too. I’m not certain I’ve quite nailed the parsing of … Read more >>

I seemed to finish this one a little more quickly than usual, perhaps because 1ac and 1dn were my first entries, and then spent more time than is the norm justifying/verifying some of … Read more >>

Gosh, quite a tough week for me. Browsing the answers it’s not hard to see why. There’s a lot of unfamiliar stuff in there, either whole terms or just alternative spellings. Which we … Read more >>

This one struck me as being something of a mixed bag, some very easy clues along with some very unfamiliar answers. Most of the entries I had come across before but some (31ac, … Read more >>

Followers of Phi’s blog will have known to expect a slightly Christmas-themed Beelzebub this week. The extra challenge was that we have six unclued entries which could be arranged to form a seasonal … Read more >>

It has only been during the last month or so that I have been solving the Beelzebub and I must say that I have been enjoying them. This one was no exception. I … Read more >>

I’d hesitate to suggest that Beelzebub was getting easier, but it does seem like the last handful of weeks have been relatively painless. This one went in smoothly in one session, with a … Read more >>

A slightly hurried post just to get back up to date. As it happens, I’ve made very few notes or scribbles, suggesting this one wasn’t expecially problematic. *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed. Across 1 SCOUTH … Read more >>

This week’s Beelzebub was excellent train company on a trek home from The North. I don’t tend to keep note of timings, but since I was still finishing Inquisitor as the train passed … Read more >>