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It’s the first Wednesday of a new month so Dac is back. There were a lot of names, song titles or film titles in today’s puzzle which is unusual for … Read more >>
All very pleasing from Alchemi today. Some of the clues were nice and there seem to be no problems with any of them.
Like the rest of my fellow Monday Indy bloggers, I’ve given up on the first puzzle of the working week being the ‘easy one’ (although that was the only reason that I put … Read more >>
A straightforward Sunday puzzle. Thank you Poins.
This was a tricky puzzle, as we expect for a Saturday Prize offering, with some crafty misdirections and good surface readings, as we expect from Monk. 23d was definitely our clue of the … Read more >>
Phi’s latest offering bring this week’s suite of midweek puzzles to an end. I found this quite tough and made very slow progress through it. Once I found the answers, however, I wondered … Read more >>
Punk makes one of his infrequent appearances today There are a few words and phrases in the grid that are to be found in the Urban Dictionary. Welcome to the … Read more >>
Today sees the apparently now-regular appearance of Quixote on the last Wednesday of the month. As always, an enjoyable solve with no particular problems, although I didn’t find this so easy as I do the usual Wednesday setter. The obligatory (?) couple of unusual words are here, although they are clued, as indeed should be the case in these circumstances, simply.
Definitions underlined.
We found this a tricky solve today, with some very crafty misdirections, and one or two solutions that needed a bit of research to check. However, the wordplay was very fair when we’d … Read more >>
It’s always nice to draw a puzzle from our friend and Fifteensquared alumnus Raich. Having had to blog an Anax on the same weekend, it was a relief that this perhaps wasn’t the … Read more >>
It’s always a pleasure to open the paper and see Anax’s name at the top of the puzzle. That’s no less true on blogging day, of course, though you do fear you might … Read more >>
This is a fairly typical Phi puzzle There is a theme but you don’t need to have any knowledge of it to solve the puzzle. I thought that there were … Read more >>
Klingsor is probably my favourite setter, so when I saw that I was blogging one of his I knew that it would be difficult but good and fair.
In fact it wasn’t all that difficult. Not easy, but so far as I can see everything makes sense straightforwardly enough.
It’s Wednesday, it’s a Dac. All is well with the world. No unusual words, no theme, no awkward grid just smooth surfaces and precise clueing. We imagine that a lot of people out … Read more >>