Never knowingly undersolved
Azed 2671 is a plain puzzle I am defeated by the word play for CABLET at 4 down. In fact, I’m not a hundred percent sure of the definition. I … Read more >>
Solving this puzzle seemed a bit harder-going than some recent Plain offerings, and I went to bed with four in the SE still unsolved.
A plain puzzle from Azed this week.
A medium-strength offering from the master, challenging and instructive as ever. Thanks to Azed. Rather unusually, the rubric mentions three “problematic” answers: two that are not in Chambers, and one abbreviation. Azed sometimes … Read more >>
What one expects from Azed: sound clueing, lots of crazy words that need a copy of Chambers, and all very enjoyable.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics and shown *(like this) or (this)*
A 13 x 11 grid this week for a change.
A mid-month puzzle from Azed is usually a plain puzzle, as this one is. I got off to a good start, possibly because there were quite a few ‘everyday’ entries, but … Read more >>
I’m afraid this puzzle defeated me. I think I have all the answers, but there are two where I am sure the answer’s right, but I couldn’t parse (SASTRA and TEAN), and one (INTROLD) where I’m not sure of the answer becasue I can’t find a definition that matches the clue.
This was tougher than most of the recent Azed’s I’ve had to blog, and it saw me referring more than normal to Chambers, where I found a load of words that I had never come across before, among them FINNAC, CHI-RHO, SASTRA, INTROLD, JARULS, KAHAL and RAHU. I was so disprited that I didn’t even try to come up with a clue for SONDAGE.
Thanks Azed
I found this a bit of a slow solve, perhaps because of a higher-than-usual proportion of unfamiliar words. Fortunately I managed to get there in the end. of Thanks to Azed. Across … Read more >>
The usual sound offering from Azed. I don’t think there is any clue that I question.
Definitions underlined in crimson. Anagram indicators in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*.
A standard 12 x 12 plain puzzle, following last week’s competition.
Azed gives us a standard plain puzzle for the competition this month. The competition clue is the 12-letter entry at 2 down I struggled a bit with the wording of … Read more >>
Azed gave us few more twists and turns in this week’s puzzle, as compared to the most recent Plain puzzles, but nothing too outlandish.
A plain puzzle from Azed.