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Guardian 25240 Puck … Everything and then some more

Wed February 9, 2011 at 1:18 amTue February 8, 2011 at 2:32 am by Uncle Yap

Phew! What an assignment today. Puck employed almost every cryptic device and then some more. The way I solve a puzzle, I must stop and rationalise the workplay before I move on … … Read more >>

Guardian Quiptic 586 / Beale

Wed February 9, 2011 at 9:27 amMon February 7, 2011 at 10:31 am by Big Dave

While I enjoyed this puzzle, I thought it was a bit on the hard side for a Quiptic. All definitions given are from Chambers 11th Edition. Most of the standard abbreviations used in … Read more >>

Guardian 25,239 – Rufus

Mon February 7, 2011 at 8:53 amMon February 7, 2011 at 8:22 am by Andrew

A very easy Rufus today, where my main difficulty came with some less-than-brilliant cryptic definitions that seemed too obvious to be true. I’m a little short of time so please excuse the rather … Read more >>

Genius 91 by Tramp

Sun February 6, 2011 at 12:04 am by bridgesong

Solving time : about a day and a half. I found this hard, partly because of a grammatical error in the instructions which made them more obscure than was necessary. There were two … Read more >>

Guardian Prize Puzzle No 25,232 by Araucaria – a river runs through it

Sat February 5, 2011 at 12:31 pmSat February 5, 2011 at 12:05 am by bridgesong

Solving time: about an hour, although that left three clues unsolved. Many thanks to my neighbour and solving partner Timon, for his help with this and many other crosswords and for introducing me … Read more >>

Guardian 25,237 / Orlando

Fri February 4, 2011 at 2:07 pmFri February 4, 2011 at 5:57 am by mhl

Strangely, this is my second Orlando puzzle to blog in two weeks, having met the setter himself in Derby on the weekend in between 🙂 As usual, this was a very good puzzle – … Read more >>

Guardian 25,236 / Araucaria

Thu February 3, 2011 at 10:35 amThu February 3, 2011 at 9:53 am by Eileen

What a treat! This took a while to get into but, once I latched on to the theme – right up my street! – it was rather plainer sailing for me than for … Read more >>

Guardian 25,235 – Chifonie

Wed February 2, 2011 at 12:40 am by Andrew

A fairly typical Chifonie, with a lot of quite obvious clues. There’s a preponderance of charade clues, with 13 out of 28 being of that type, including 10 out of 14 acrosses: rather … Read more >>

Guardian 25234 Paul … Good things come in threes

Wed February 2, 2011 at 12:01 amTue February 1, 2011 at 3:21 am by Uncle Yap

The Chinese has a saying that good things come in threes and true to the ancient wisdom of my people, I get to blog Paul for the third time in a row. This … Read more >>

Guardian 25,233 / Rufus

Mon January 31, 2011 at 8:17 am by duncanshiell

This was a fairly standard puzzle from Rufus that will no doubt divide the solving community along the usual lines. As ever, from Rufus, there were a number of clues based on cryptic … Read more >>

Quiptic crossword No 585

Mon January 31, 2011 at 1:50 am by PeterO

I was feeling particularly leaden, and made heavy weather of solving this, but in writing it up there does not seem to be anything to struggle over: mostly straightforward charades and envelopes. Across … Read more >>

Guardian Prize Crossword 25,226 by Enigmatist

Mon January 31, 2011 at 8:36 amSat January 29, 2011 at 12:01 am by PeeDee

Another good puzzle, not easy, but all there to be found if you look. I thought the construction of the clues was very tight indeed, only 5dn giving me any doubts, but this may just be … Read more >>

Guardian 25,231 / Quantum

Fri January 28, 2011 at 4:49 pmFri January 28, 2011 at 9:38 am by Eileen

Pondering what to say in the preamble has taken almost as long as the solve – and I still haven’t come up with anything appropriate. To say that I was surprised to see … Read more >>

Guardian 25,230 – Crucible

Thu January 27, 2011 at 1:08 am by Andrew

I seem to have got into a habit lately of sailing through one half of a puzzle and struggling with the rest. With this one I finished the bottom half quite quickly but … Read more >>

Guardian 25,229 – Gordius

Wed January 26, 2011 at 11:34 amWed January 26, 2011 at 3:29 am by manehi

Solved most of this quickly but couldn’t get a foothold in the NW for a good while. Some nice clues (26d my favourite), but some (6d, 14d) were a bit shaky. Across 1 … Read more >>