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Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 15 This is indeed last week’s Prize Crossword but it wasn’t published in the newspaper itself. The FT mistakingly printed off a repeat of IO’s lovingly made tribute to Robin Williams. … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 13, 2014 The top-left of this puzzle was tricky but on the whole it was a jolly good one with some nifty clues, especially 8a … Read more >>
Another themed puzzle from Io, trickier than the one I blogged a couple of weeks ago. There are still some explanations that I am not sure about so any help in getting to the bottom of these would be appreciated.
Nice and easy crossword. Lots of lovely clues with good surface stories throughout. Thanks ARMONIE
An entertaining tussle with Flimsy today, thanks to whom for setting an intuitive and approachable grid. No favorite clue here as there were several smooth surfaces. My LOI was 25ac, not because I solved it last, but because I couldnt do any better than parsing it as cryptic definition for the player part of the clue. Perhaps this could be improved upon.
An enjoyable and surprisingly challenging puzzle to mark – of course – today’s referendum on Scottish independence.
Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 8 A Dante crossword without too many difficulties to overcome. Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. Across 1 FRINGE Enclosure surrounded by iron border (6) FE (iron) … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 6, 2014 This Mudd proved a little more difficult than usual and well up to standard. My favourite clues are 9a (GLOBAL), 15d (FLOAT), 16d … Read more >>
Sorry for the late post everyone, I completely forgot it was my turn. Good puzzle from Wanderer, fortunately not too tricky today!
Nothing hard here.
A gentle offering this from Bradman – my best friend on a Friday. Relatively straightforward with very little left to chance. I needed help parsing 16ac and 18 ac but other that everything else went in pretty quickly. Thanks Bradman, for an apt conclusion to this week of relatively easy FT grids.
A doddle, this, from Falcon.
Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 1 Enjoyable exercise by Monday regular Crux. Good spread of devices although my least favourite device, the double definition, was once more very prominent with no less than 7 entries. The … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 30, 2014 This Magwitch puzzle proved a good and satisfying challenge. I am becoming familiar with this setter’s style of wordplay and enjoying her puzzles … Read more >>
Quite a puzzle from Io.