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(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) The usual Tuesday fare from Neo. … Read more >>
My third time covering Bradman, another great grid to finish the working week with. Thanks Bradman for a pleasurable solve. Just touched down in Tokyo a couple of hours back and immediately got to a wifi enabled location to get my fix for the day.
Magwitch has been appearing monthly since last September so this is his/her sixth puzzle in the FT. I found this one to be on the easy side but this did not detract from the enjoyment … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Feb 10 A very enjoyable brain exercise from Crux. Plenty of variation, nice surfaces and a couple of morbid clues (5d, 23d) on top of that ….. Definitions are underlined wherever … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 8, 2014 While it may be a little heavy in the use of ‘first of’ (in 14a, 15a and 19d), I found this a good … Read more >>
In general the clues were pretty clear and obvious – after I had solved them. Before solving they were anything but. This is my definition of a good cryptic.
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) A fair puzzle from Armonie, to whom … Read more >>
Once again, the Friday grid has been especially approachable. Thanks Flimsy for a very pleasant run, and with straightforward cluing that leaves no room for any ambiguity.
I didn’t know I was going to be blogging this puzzle until after I had finished it otherwise I would have made some notes at the time. Fortunately all the parsing is straightforward … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Feb 3 A fairly typical Dante puzzle, pleasant and smooth – nothing too taxing (apart from 1ac, perhaps – well, for me it was). Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 1, 2014 I found this easier than most Bradman puzzles although it still presented a decent challenge. My choice clues are 9a (EXEMPLIFIED) and 26a … Read more >>
Very enjoyable and on the whole not too difficult, just a couple that I struggled with. Thank you Aardvark.
As I often do, I started at the end and worked backwards through the clues which meant that I didn’t see the key 1ac until it was referenced in one of the other … Read more >>
Quite a fun grid from Orense to round off the working week .. some straightforward clues helped me get started and the tougher ones gradually became easy with more cross-refs in.
I found this slightly tricky in places because of some parsing that seemed initially to be a little tenuous. However, all became clear in the end though I’m still not sure that I … Read more >>