Guardian

It’s me again, standing in for scchua, who’s away this week. I think I got a good deal! There’s an abundance of excellent clues, with deft definitions, a handful of ‘lift and separates’, … Read more >>

I always feel lucky to draw a Qaos puzzle to blog … … the only drawback being that they always have a theme and it’s not always one that I’m familiar with. I … Read more >>

Last Saturday’s Prize puzzle presented something of a shock to Guardian solvers. Several commenters recently have said that they failed to see the ‘Special Instructions’ in some puzzles. This time, ‘In memory of … Read more >>

A fairly easy run today, though I was held up a little at the end in the SW corner. I was nearly stumped by the tricky parsing of 18a, but it hit me … Read more >>

Once again, Carpathian slips comfortably into the Monday slot, as I said at the beginning of my previous blog of one of her puzzles. I enjoyed this one, with its well-chosen indicators for … Read more >>