Guardian

It’s unusual these days to see Paul on a Tuesday, but being earlier in the week didn’t mean (at least for me) an easier puzzle: I found this quite hard by Paul’s standards, … Read more >>

A fairly mild Prize puzzle from Paul, after some tough challenges during the previous week. Paul has given us some easy charades, at 12,22,24,27ac and 7 and 18dn, to get us started / … Read more >>

A crossword with some innovative clue construction. Thanks to Philistine for the challenge. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Cast in 10 officers (6) POLICE : “c” substituted for “t” in(C … Read more >>

Here’s the second Chifonie puzzle I have blogged in two weeks – after a rather long absence, Chifonie appears to be back! A straightforward puzzle, with a characteristic medley of anagrams, charades and … Read more >>

In retrospect a fairly typical Rufus, with lots of cryptic and double definitions, though it seemed a bit harder than usual when I was solving it. Thanks to Rufus]         … Read more >>

This crossword from Puck was a nice Saturday challenge – mostly fairly straightforward with a tricky North East quadrant, we thought. As you expect from this setter there were some clever bits of … Read more >>

A fairly typic Vlad experience for me today, where I got off to a good start with some (relatively) easy clues, but then slowed down and took a while to finish off. Even … Read more >>

My first Screw (blogging-wise), and the last bit had me almost 23down.  Thanks to Screw for a hard but enjoyable one.  Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Absolute idiot on top of … Read more >>

In my blog of the last Imogen puzzle a month ago, I commented that it was rather less of a challenge than usual and that some of the clues were rather bland. Not … Read more >>