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The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28257. A fairly quick solve, pleasant, but not too exciting, with some strange surfaces. A theme of headgear is plastered all over the place. Indeed, a google … Read more >>
Vulcan starts the week with a typical Monday medley of charades, anagrams and cryptic definitions, with just one double definition today. I’m not usually a great fan of Vulcan’s puzzles but I enjoyed … Read more >>
A thoughtfully compiled Quiptic from Matilda, which I’d be happy to recommend to those who are new to this kind of torture. Friendly grid, no obscurities, clear cluing. Happy days. … Read more >>
Pasquale has set the September Genius There was a fairly short preamble that told us: Wordplay in nine of the across clues and all the down clues omits one or … Read more >>
An entertaining and largely straightforward puzzle from Picaroom – lots of very nice clues to enjoy Eileen mentioned that we have a little boy now, 2 months old today, and I thought you … Read more >>
Vlad rounds off a good week of puzzles with a reasonably tough challenge. The four long perimeter clues helped, as usual, but there were some rather tricky bits of parsing and one I’m … Read more >>
Tramp’s usual tricky excellence with some very neat surfaces including 14ac. I particularly liked 6ac, 10ac, 11ac, 20a, 26ac, 6dn, 7dn, 22dn, and especially 4dn. Many thanks to Tramp for the puzzle. … Read more >>
A very nice puzzle from Philistine: quite tricky in parts, but in a chewy kind of way that yielded to patient thought. A couple of references to fictional characters may have puzzled some. … Read more >>
A tribute to a late cruciverbalist author in today’s Guardian. COLIN DEXTER, the creator of Inspector MORSE and his sidekick LEWIS, would have been 90 today, so Pasquale has taken the opportunity to … Read more >>
Anto provides a slightly tricky Quiptic today. There are a couple of loose definitions, and some references that may be unfamiliar to non-Brits – I’ve tried to cover these in the notes. I’m … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28250. A fine puzzle, I would say a notch more difficult than many Monday offerings, but none the worse for that. ACROSS 1 EPITOME Brief extract from … Read more >>
More delightful cluemanship on display in this week’s puzzle in what used to be the prize slot. It’s always a pleasure to see Philistine’s name on a puzzle, and this one didn’t disappoint. … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28248. Mostly on the simpler side – for a Nutmeg – but with a couple of definitely tricky parses. In all beautifully crafted. ACROSS 1 WARTHOG Wild … Read more >>
Well, this should have been the last day of my walking holiday in Mallorca but finding the name of one of my favourite setters above the puzzle I was down to blog went … Read more >>
An enjoyable and tricky solve, and I'm still not too sure about some of the parsing. Favourites were 10ac, 26ac, 6dn, and 13dn. Thanks to Boatman I also enjoyed the obvious theme in … Read more >>