Never knowingly undersolved
This is the annual Christmas Competition Puzzle where solvers were given two weeks for submission, hence the delay in publishing the blog. The preamble stated: Ten thematic clues are without … Read more >>
This is my last post of the year and my 700th post overall for Fifteensquared. I found it hard! I spent a lot more time stuck than usual, several times I was left … Read more >>
After a very quick start which saw me complete about a third of the puzzle almost immediately, I struggled to complete this Azed.
The last competition puzzle before the Chrtistmas special, and a fairly gentle one (after the initial hurdle of it not being available on the website till Monday). Thanks to Azed. … Read more >>
Always a pleasure, thank you Azed. ACROSS 1 ORCHESTRALIST Musician, vocal practitioner taking in right dresser (13) ORALIST (vocal practitioner) contains R (right) CHEST (dresser) 11 HERACLEAN Goddess, entirely heroic (9) HERA … Read more >>
An anagrams special from Azed this week.
Azed provides us with our weekly crossword challenge and opportunity to increase our vocabulary. It was a plain Azed this week with a good mix of well known and obscure … Read more >>
A pleasure to solve and blog as always. Thank you Azed.
A plain Azed that I solved at a steady pace. I was able to complete all bar the SE corner without resorting to Chambers, so this must have been a fairly straightforward offering. … Read more >>
It gets harder and harder to say anything new about Azed – just another top-quality puzzle, as ever. I thought I’d caught him out in an error in 22d, but not surprisingly the … Read more >>
What is there left to say? Thank you Azed for yet another interesting puzzle. Apologies for the late arrival of the blog, I messed up with the scheduled publish time. ACROSS 1 OLD-FOGEYISH … Read more >>
A Spoonerisms puzzle for this month’s competition: the first for over a year
A standard puzzle from Azed this week giving us another opportunity to dip into Chambers Dictionary for some new words. In the clues and few of the entries there were … Read more >>
Another interesting trip though the English language with an expert guide. Thank you Azed.
A puzzle with some contemporary political, sporting and cultural references this week, but I was troubled a little by the plural of certain fish(es).