FT

Financial Times 15,144 by FALCON

by

Falcon is always a welcome setter on Fridays, with his genial offering of puzzles proving to be a not too taxing solve. If I had to pick a quibble, it is that 29 ac wasnt really cryptic in my opinion.

Personally, I doubt there will be one more blog like this, seeing how I am writing this from a labour ward.

Read more >>

Financial Times 15,134 – Armonie

by

Monday prize Crossword / Jan 11, 2016

It’s been a while since we had Tuesday regular Armonie (aka Chifonie at another place) on the Prize spot. Concise clueing, good surfaces, mostly simple devices.
Enjoyable and relatively easy – although I had some trouble finishing the NE.

Read more >>

Financial Times 15,142 by MONK

by

Good stuff again from Monk.  I particularly like to blog Monk puzzles as there is always a clear and precise explanation of the solution in there waiting to be found.  The only difficulty for the blogger is finding it.  Thanks Monk.

Read more >>

Financial Times 15,138 by WANDERER

by

As Smeagol would have said, this one from Wanderer was tricksy !! 🙂 Thanks Wanderer for a wonderful humbling experience. The frustration  when it came to parsing some of the clues was only surpassed by the delight I felt when I finally did. Especially 1ac.

Read more >>

Financial Times 15132 by ALBERICH

by

Happy New Year everybody!! Its good to be back after a three week hiatus since both Christmas and New Year’s fell on Fridays. We have Alberich in the house, for the first FT Friday crossword in 2016 and true to his style, he gives us a smooth, intriguing challenge that was just within reach in terms of solving, and a touch out of reach (annoyingly so) in terms of parsing! 🙂 Several clues were refreshingly new (atleast to me) and as I solved them, made me upbeat about the rest of the year to follow. And of course, thanks to Neil !!

Read more >>