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Anax usually appears on Saturdays in the Independent, or so it seems, but he has put in a welcome weekday appearance today. This is the usual excellent production (I would say that wouldn’t I, since he may well be at the S&B later today; but of course it’s true). It wasn’t at all easy, but Anax seldom is; I think I’ve just about understood everything, but there are one or two slightly dodgy parsings which I trust will be explained properly by someone.
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water … … and that we were all done and dusted with the 2015 election, along comes Knut with a … Read more >>
A good and very enjoyable Sunday puzzle that I found trickier than usual. I think that the general level of difficulty of the IoS has gone up over the time I have been blogging it. I wonder if this is editorial policy or just random variation? Possibly just a natural decline in my faculties.
Enjoyable – and topical? – fare from Morph for this week’s Prize puzzle… At the end of a 9A TUMULT-uous week in British politics, there seemed to be subliminal references all over this. … Read more >>
Today saw my monthly Friday encounter with Phi. I found this to be a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle. I made steady progress through it from the start almost to the finish, faltering only in … Read more >>
Tyrus has given us a good challenge today with only one entry that I don’t remember coming across before. The one word that was new to me was ALAMEDA at … Read more >>
I am usually trying to write a clue in some clue-writing competition or other; and it is nearly always tortuous. In Dac’s case none of his clues are tortuous: they all seem to be perfectly natural, and they always have a simple and strong surface. Why it should be that the words Dac clues are so different from those that I try to clue is beyond me. Actually they’re not: it’s just that he is rather better at it than I am.
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As soon as we saw that it was Scorpion today, we thought there might be a hidden theme. When we started looking at the clues, it was clear that there was a … Read more >>
There’s a consistency to Poins’ puzzles that makes this setter seem very much at home in the IoS, but which does make it very difficult to find a great deal new to say … Read more >>
It’s a Donk – at long last! Checking through our posts, it’s over a year since we had the pleasure of blogging a Donk. When we were away in February we missed Donk’s puzzle … Read more >>
If you are still awake after staying up all night to watch the Election results, Phi has given us a good sound Friday crossword. I can’t see any obvious theme. … Read more >>
It wasn’t difficult to guess what we would be meeting today.
Another excellent puzzle from Dac. What more can we say that hasn’t already been said? The puzzle features two brilliantly portrayed fictional characters from a few years ago – the memories came … Read more >>
Radian is occupying this week’s Tuesday slot, and it is a while since I last solved and blogged one of his puzzles. I generally find that, for me at least, Radian’s puzzles are … Read more >>