Guardian

(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 an enjoyable offering from … Read more >>

The crossword may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26206. Most of the left half fell in fairly readily; after that it was a struggle, culminating with the vicious 9D. The rain today has just got … Read more >>

Logodaedalus puzzles appear very rarely – the last one was August last year, which was over eighteen months after the previous one. The wordplay is, characteristically, very straightforward throughout, with a number of … Read more >>

Once again a Rufus puzzle that is rather too heavy for my taste on the cryptic definitions (four of them, including a couple that seem barely cryptic) and double defintions (six, plus one … Read more >>

This felt rather more like a Prize puzzle than some of those we’ve had lately. It certainly took a little bit longer but I’ll resist saying that it caused me no end of … Read more >>

I’ve just started working a four-day week as part of a gradual progress to retirement: today is my first non-working weekday of this arrangement, and how better to celebrate it than by blogging … 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.)  Imogen is a new Guardian Cryptic … Read more >>

The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26199. Apart from 3D, where I seem to be missing something, this is a typical Chifonie, straightforward and precise.   Across 1. Help to retain wide deviation … Read more >>

I’m a big fan of Qaos’ puzzles. His first cryptic appeared just over two years ago and I blog once a week, yet this is the first of his to fall to me. … Read more >>