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Guardian 26,960 / Paul

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A rather tough challenge from Paul today, especially in the parsings, one of which I’m still not sure of. Thanks to Paul for the workout. Across 8 Italian broadcast in stereo (8) TORINESE … Read more >>

Guardian 26,958 – Imogen

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Setters continue to be inspired by the UK political situation… …specifically in this case mostly by Theresa May, and other meanings of her surname. I found this quite hard, with some tricky clueing … Read more >>

Guardian Cryptic 26955 Brummie

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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.)  A Goldilocks cryptic, not too hard … Read more >>

Guardian 26,953 / Brendan

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It’s always a real pleasure to see Brendan’s name on a puzzle – and thank goodness he’s back more regularly again now. The solving was quite straightforward but it soon became obvious that … Read more >>

Guardian 26,951 – Rufus

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Only a couple of double definitions today, but otherwise a fairly standard Rufus, with eight cryptic definitions. I found it very easy even by his standards. Thanks to Rufus.         … Read more >>

Guardian Prize 26,944 by Paul

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Some of these clues were pretty damn tricky I thought.  Good fun all the way through, tricky or not.  Thanks Paul.

Note: I will on holiday riding along the South Downs way when this blog is published.  Hopefully I will be able to reply to comments on my phone. Please be patient as I hate typing on tiny screens with software that tries to change everything I write into something else. Update: Holiday departure is is now delayed until tomorrow evening.

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