Never knowingly undersolved
The first Azed after the Christmas special is traditionally supposed a bit gentler than usual, but that wasn’t my experience with this one. All sorted in the end, though. Thanks to Azed, and … Read more >>
I found this slow going at first, but I soon got used to the idea I was solving at normal speed again. Thank you Azed.
Notice: the blog for this puzzle will be published a week later than usual on Sunday 2nd January, the day after the closing date for entries.
Lots of classical references in this week’s plain Azed puzzle
As usual for the first Azed puzzle of the month, this is a competition puzzle with one word clued by definition only. It is a plain puzzle though. No doubt there will be … Read more >>
Fewer difficult words for me this week, so a quicker than usual solve. Thank you Azed.
A gentle Azed.
A gentle walk in the park (relatively speaking) after the previous week’s tricky Letters Latent. Thanks to Azed. Across 1 SVARABHAKTI Kasbah TV air waves demonstrating vocalic development (11)(KASBAH TV AIR)* – … Read more >>
I normally solve the Azed specials quite comfortably but I found this one tough going. Very enjoyable nevertheless. Thank you Azed.
I found this Azed harder than usual, probably because there were no 11 or 12 letter words in the grid.
A plain Azed puzzle this week. There was the usual mix of unknown, vaguely-known and well known words and phrases in the entries in this puzzle leading to a my … Read more >>
The usual weekly fix for the dictionary addict. Thank you Azed.
I don’t even know if I have completed this one right…
As I was writing up this blog, it struck me that most of the parsing of the clues is very straightforward: I think more so than usual. Of course there’s the usual helping … Read more >>
Fewer obscure words than usual this week. Thank you Azed.