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Well, we were ready for a Thursday toughie, and then we found it was an Anax today – always a good challenge! 1 across had us really worried – not a good start! … Read more >>

It is Wednesday today, so it was no surprise to find Dac’s latest offering to tackle this morning. I found this easier than the average Dac puzzle, and made steady progress from start … Read more >>

A good puzzle from Scorpion today which brought back a few memories.       There are a surprising number of models of FORD cars that Scorpion could have used, but I think … Read more >>

A typical, and pleasing, Monday puzzle from Quixote.  Enough anagrams to get the improving solver going, and then a generous grid which meant that once you’d got going, you’d get finished.  Only a … Read more >>

(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.)  eXternal’s IoS puzzles are quite a … Read more >>

Hob-goblins maybe. When writing the blog, I was considering having a moan about 6/12 because it appeared to have the word split in half in such a way that one half NAVI appeared … Read more >>

We cannot believe that four weeks have passed by and we are blogging a Phi puzzle again. Not that we are complaining …… We enjoyed the solve and think we have everything sorted … Read more >>

It is a long time since I have had the task of blogging a Morph puzzle, so I was keen to see how I would cope with it, first with solving the clues, … Read more >>

It’s the last Wednesday of the month, so it’s a Crosophile puzzle.       This is a crossword that contains words that I would consider to be in every day usage.  I … Read more >>

Today’s offering from Alchemi is a very pleasant, not too difficult but perfectly challenging, crossword. There are one or two places where pedants would grumble, but few, and I think all is well … Read more >>

The Saturday after Valentine’s day and a duel with Anax. Now this was certainly one for a hungry person on a long train journey, where the buffet was closed. Every clue has some reference … Read more >>

I was expecting this Friday to bring me a lexical tussle with Phi, and so it did. This was a puzzle I was expecting to whizz through, having worked out all the longer … Read more >>

Klingsor’s puzzle today was a fair workout for a Thursday.       There were a couple of lesser known words / phrases, for me at least, in the top left hand corner … Read more >>