The original puzzle may be found here or as a pdf at https://tinyurl.com/Everyman4167.
Observer
Gemelo No. 46
Some brilliant clues in this week’s plain puzzle.
Everyman 4,166/23 August 2026
Another solid Everyman, with everything in its proper place.
Gemelo 45
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Gemelo No. 44
A finely crafted puzzle this week. Solving the four long perimeter clues certainly helped lock the rest into place.
Everyman 4,165/16 August
I enjoyed this week’s offering from Everyman. Perfect accompaniment to a Sunday morning coffee (or two).
Everyman 4,164
The pleasant crossword from Everyman that we are now used to. There were some nice clues and one or two I found tricky at the end; as it should be.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (homophone, hidden, containment, anagram, juxtaposition, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green.
Gemelo No. 43
A standard Gemelo puzzle.
Azed 2782
Azed’s change to appearing only monthly and the vagaries of the schedule mean that I haven’t blogged one of his puzzles since January, so I feel rather out of practice. Quite a lot of unfamiliar in this one, I thought, but all fairly clued as ever, though there seems to be an error in 9 down, unless I’m misunderstanding (quite possible, of course). Thanks to Azed.
Everyman 4,163
The puzzle may be found at https://observer.co.uk/puzzles/everyman/article/everyman-no-4163 (which seems to be no longer behind a paywall – or is it just that a cookie has expired? -; also the interactive presentation is marginally improved but still poor) or as a pdf at htpps://tinyurl.com/Everyman4163.
Gemelo No. 42
The very pleasant crossword that we have come to expect from Gemelo. There are several misleading and intricate pieces of wordplay.
My guess is that anyone who does these crosswords will have a copy of Chambers to hand and so won’t need everything to be spelled out. In the parsing I have confined myself to explaining when the wordplay is not immediately clear.
Everyman 4,162/26 July 2026
A PDF of this puzzle may be found at https://tinyurl.com/Everyman4162
Everyman 4,161/19 July
Another solid offering from Everyman for our Sunday entertainment.
Gemelo No. 41
The original puzzle may be found here.
Following last week’s special, this is the expected plain puzzle from Gemelo.
Everyman 4,160
As we nowadays expect from Everyman, a sound and pleasant crossword. How Everyman manages week after week to produce a grid with all those things (highlighted) in it I don’t know.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (homophone, hidden, containment, anagram, juxtaposition, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green.