Guardian

A straightforward puzzle with, and I apoligise for becoming boring on this, too many cryptic definitions. Most of the omitted answers were, for me, common words with good word play but please do … Read more >>

Satisfyingly diverse bunch of words here and some great wordplay. Paul’s clues are short and without a wasted word – like Bach to Araucaria’s Mozart . A few straight anagrams made it easier … Read more >>

Not as hard as the last Orlando I had to blog though had to guess at a couple of defs. Please enlighten. Seemed more than average anagram count which probably explains why I … Read more >>

I wondered if there might be a thematic puzzle today, and when I saw it was by Araucaria I pretty much knew I was right. The preamble stated that any E’s in the … Read more >>

Mostly straightforward from Brendan today, some easy anagrams and a couple of hidden words – I was racing towards one of my quicker times until I ran into 2 down. Edit: missed the … Read more >>

Solving time: About 40 minutes (interrupted); two wrong (30ac and 44dn), one missing (42dn) If you’ve read or seen As You Like It (specifically Act V, Scene IV), you probably found this easier … Read more >>

Across 1 RIDICULE: CID (reversed) in RULE containing I 9 ANIMUS: NIM (old game) in AUS 10 AGATHA: AA aroung GATH (gun) 11 HIGH JUMP: a field event and what the doomed man … Read more >>

A fairly straightforward puzzle with a small amount of word play en clair. There were a couple of tougher clues in here too.       Across 7 TURNOVER TURN OVER …a page … Read more >>

<Insert my usual hero-worshipping gush about how great Araucaria is here> <Insert my usual slight whinge about clues that require obsolete copies of Roget’s Thesaurus here > ACROSS 1 PITTA – It’s usually … Read more >>

A mix of the easy and the hard. I had to trawl Google a bit here and there. Finding one of my answers on this very site (see 24A). Questions about some of … Read more >>

Solving time 14:43 I raced through the top half in a couple of minutes, but then struggled with the bottom half and really struggled with the SE corner. Nothing particularly difficult and all … Read more >>

Solving time: lost. A nice change from Araucaria, and a pretty standard Guardian puzzle with nothing too difficult, although a couple of harder words; 3dn held me up the most. There’s also a … Read more >>

Solving time 9:09 A pretty straightforward puzzle from Chifonie today – I don’t often finish non-Rufus Guardian puzzles in under 10 minutes. Still, there were some good clues and a few less familiar … Read more >>

Apologies for the brief blog, but a host of things came up and I’ve only just found time to solve this. It was quite tricky, and I haven’t the time to think some … Read more >>