Guardian

Not a cross-reference in sight nor a long anagram. Was this really Araucaria? I can’t even detect a theme of sorts. Now that I’ve said this, will someone prove me wrong? Across 1 … Read more >>

 It was mostly quite easy, but with a fiendish top right corner that held me up for ages, and I messed up on two clues early on, which didn’t help. Only finished properly … Read more >>

Well, this wasn’t too difficult at all, much to my surprise. I forgot to set the timer going, but I solved it in around 15 or 16 minutes. There were still some tricky … Read more >>

This didn’t take me very long, and was short on elation in the solving. Across 9 C EASE F IRE C for constant, ire is anger, ease is to moderate and f for … Read more >>

My favourite clues combine Rufus’s trademark cryptic definitions with wordplay, so as to keep you guessing for longer – 5 and 11 across require unravelling, whereas 17 across couldn’t be anything else. ACROSS: … Read more >>

Solving time: 10:16 A really good puzzle this week and much more accurate than normal for the Guardian, with some very elegant clues and clever definitions. Should have been faster but for ‘phenomenal’ … Read more >>

Not the easiest puzzle to return to from France. Puck and Paul must have gone to the same school of cryptic wizardry if their senses of humor are anything to go by. The … Read more >>

Apologies for late posting. I’ve been off work, but looking after my 11-month old niece who has asthma and chicken-pox, which didn’t seem to leave much time for blogging – now I remember … Read more >>

Across 1 POSTGRAD G(ood) substituted for the ‘e’ in Poster, being one of the two advertisements, the other being ‘ad. 5 Not being interested in football I thought long and hard about Ferdinand … Read more >>

Sorry for the lateness of this post, but I was in a meeting all day and playing cricket in the evening.  The clues in this puzzle read like a poem in rhyming couplets, and … Read more >>

Solving time 11:58 …the last 4 minutes of which were spent trying to think of a six-letter word to fit ?I?S?N in 22 down, because the printable version from the website didn’t give … Read more >>

Solving time: 20 minutes  One of the easier Saturday Guardan puzzles, certainly an easier time than with Pasquale’s last week!  For those looking to spread their wings beyond a normal daily puzzle, these are often … Read more >>

Solving time – 15:41 This started off very easy and I had most of the top half finished in a couple of minutes, but my momentum slipped away and I eventually ground to … Read more >>

Across 1 ROMULUS founder of Rome, and I otherwise have no idea what the clue means. (Hangs head in shame.) 5 CHAR QUI is a sort of South American dried meat jerky. Char … Read more >>