Engaging and fun to solve. I am very impressed how Paul keeps churning out puzzles without becoming predictable and repetitive. How does he do it?Thanks Paul, keep it up!
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Guardian Cryptic 26,973 by Brendan
Very enjoyable, with…
Guardian 26,972 / Paul
I don’t know why I was solving this at around 4:30am! Well I do, I awoke early and decided to see who I was going to blog today. Whilst the puzzle was printing, I solved … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 26,971 by Picaroon
One for fans of container clues
Guardian Cryptic 26,970 by Nutmeg
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26970.
Guardian 26,969 / Rufus
Here’s Rufus, with an entetaining medley of double and cryptic definitions and some neat anagrams, with lovely surfaces, as ever, to launch us into the week. Thanks, Rufus – I enjoyed it. Across 9 … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 875 Provis
(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.) This was made easier for me by … Read more >>
Guardian Prize 26,962 / Vlad
After blogging a difficult Paul puzzle on Thursday and battling with a fiendish one from Enigmatist on Friday, I was wondering what on earth was in store for us on Saturday. It turned … Read more >>
Guardian 26,967 / Tramp
It’s many months since I blogged a Tramp puzzle and so I was delighted to land this one. I was a bit put out at first by the capital letters in 14,10, 20ac … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 26,966 by Puck
A little too clever for me, with much of the parsing done after the fact – I’m still unsure on 8dn, 17dn and 21dn. Favourites were 13ac, 21ac, and 18dn. Thanks, Puck
There…
Guardian Cryptic 26,965 by Qaos
Fifth time lucky?
Guardian 26,964 – Screw
Mostly quite gentle by this setter’s standards, with some very easy clues to get us started, but also some trickier ones,
Guardian Quiptic 874/Nutmeg
A Quiptic from our favourite Spice Girl this morning. And a fine one it was too. Beginners would have enjoyed this, I think. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 26,963 by Rufus
The puzzle may be found athttps://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26963.
Guardian 26,956 / Paul
It’s incredible to me how Paul keeps up such an endless stream of excellent, witty crosswords; here’s another one… Across 1. Idiot not entirely without feeling, shame one has quit (6) NUMPTY NUM[b] … Read more >>