Never knowingly undersolved
We have a plain Azed competition puzzle this week … Well it was presented as plain puzzle, but given the date of publication, it was a case of ‘Solvers beware’…. … Read more >>
Some wonderful new words this week. Solving and blogging Azed really is a dictionary nerd’s delight. Thank you Azed.
A plain Azed this week.
This all went in quickly and smoothly, with the application of quantities of educated guesswork, and just a bit of trouble finishing off the NW corner. Thanks to Azed. … Read more >>
I found this harder than usual. I made a decent start but then had to come back to the puzzle quite a few times to finally finish it off. Thank you Azed
A 13 x 11 grid for this week’s puzzle, which was carelessly printed in the paper as an 11 x 11 grid, with the two right hand columns omitted. Fortunately, the pdf was correct.
We have a plain Azed this week. I got a very long way into this puzzle before reaching for my copy of Chambers. I don’t think I have ever got … Read more >>
I’ve had my obscure word fix for the week and I’m feeling much better now. Thank you Azed.
Massive apologies for the delay in getting this blog out.
The blog of this puzzle has been delayed but will appear in due course.
As often happens with my Azed solving these days, I filled in most of the grid quite quickly, with the last half-dozen clues taking considerably longer. There are a couple that I can’t … Read more >>
I filled the grid quickly enough, probably because of a lower than usual obscure word count. Explaining the clues took longer than usual, there is still one explanation that is not quite there. Thank you Azed.
A reasonably straightforward puzzle to solve: but blogging it proved much more challenging.
The Azed puzzle this week is the monthly competition puzzle where this month the puzzle is plain and one clue is simply a definition. Competitors are asked to write a clue for the … Read more >>
I got though this quite quickly, so either I’m getting better or this is at the easier end of the Azed spectrum. Thank you Azed for yet another fine puzzle.