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Hurrah! – Orlando returns to the cryptic slot after an absence of almost seven months and I’m lucky enough to be the blogger. Much of this was pretty straightforward, but with Orlando’s characteristic … Read more >>

As is often the case with Nutmeg’s puzzles, I found this quite hard to get into, but in retrospect it’s all very clearly and soundly clued, so a satisfying and enjoyable solve. Thanks … Read more >>

Paul once again for the Prize puzzle – and a fairly straightforward one, too, I thought. I think the general consensus is that we should no longer expect the Prize crossword to be … Read more >>

(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.)   An enjoyable puzzle from Paul. Thanks … Read more >>

Another box of delights from Philistine, brimming with witty surfaces and ingenious wordplay, and producing a number of ahas and chortles along the way. Many thanks, Philistine, for a lot of fun to … Read more >>

A typicla Rufus, with lots of double and cryptic definitions – some of the latter rather weak or vague for my taste. Also a few examples of words or devies being used more … Read more >>

An entertaining puzzle with an excellent theme from Imogen; this didn’t cause us too many problems… The rubric for this crossword read: Fifteen solutions are of a kind, not further defined. These turned … Read more >>

An enjoyable puzzle from Crucible, with lots of links to the key answer at 3,23,25, which luckily I got early on (working back from 24a). Just one homophonic quibble, but otherwise very soundly … Read more >>

(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.)  Thanks to Pasquale for an enjoyable puzzle. … Read more >>