Another Saturday, another Picaroon – we seem to be coinciding quite a lot recently…and another fairly tough workout…
Guardian
Guardian 29,152 / Paul
Paul rounds off the week for the second time running, making this my third Paul blog in eight days. An interesting and entertaining puzzle, with some ingenious and amusing constructions. I had ticks … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,151 by Picaroon
A difficult solve with tricky parsing, and many favourites including 10ac, 13ac, 26ac, 4dn, 5dn, 8dn, 15dn. Thanks to Picaroon for the puzzle
Guardian 29,150 – Vlad
A stiff challenge, as expected from this setter, with the NW corner holding me up the longest. Thanks to Vlad. Across 1 WAR BRIDE One becoming union member during dispute (3,5)Cryptic definition … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,149 by Fed
A fun puzzle from Fed this morning.
Guardian Quiptic 1239 Carpathian
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Soldier has location for drone? (8) PARASITE : PARA(short for “paratrooper”/soldier who parachutes into the combat zone) plus(has) SITE(a location/place at … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,148 by Vulcan
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29148.
Guardian Prize 29,141 / Paul
It’s Paul filling the Prize slot this week, with something of a mixture of clue styles. We had old favourites at 4dn and 19dn, for instance, but it turned out that the former … Read more >>
Guardian 29,146 / Paul
Paul rounds off the week with a generally straightforward puzzle, with just a few bits of parsing that took more thinking about. I had ticks for 1ac SPEEDWAY, 11ac ARTLESSLY, 29ac MOONSETS, 7dn … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,145 by Imogen
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29145.
Guardian Cryptic 29,144 by Brendan
Thanks Brendan – I really enjoyed this…
Guardian 29,143 – Brummie
I made a bit of a slow start on this, but once a few answers were in the rest mostly fell satisfyingly into place. Thanks to Brummie. I noticed while solving that a … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 1,238/Hectence
A pleasing Quiptic as always from Hectence, with some delightful surface readings. A few straightforward anagrams to start the grid fill, then mainly a diet of cleverly constructed charades for the solver to … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 29,142 by Nutmeg and Arachne
A rare collaboration in today's Guardian
Genius No 241 by Jack
A musical theme for this month’s Genius.