I found this quite tough going for an Everyman
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Gemelo No. 48
The original puzzle may be found here.
Gemelo 47
A plain puzzle from Gemelo, with the usual collection of unfamiliar words to add to our vocabularies (and, at least in my case, to forget shortly afterwards). Thanks to Gemelo.
Everyman 4,169/13 September
All the usual features of an Everyman puzzle in this one.
Everyman 4,168
I thought this was on the easy side for Everyman, but everything is good and sound (apart from one or two small criticisms). There are some excellent clues with convincing surfaces and the usual Everyman trademarks indicated in colour below.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (homophone, hidden, containment, anagram, juxtaposition, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green.
Azed No. 2,783
Several clues where I’m not 100% sure, and one that at the time of writing quite defeats me. However, I’m sure that all will be explained.
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 4,167
The original puzzle may be found here or as a pdf at https://tinyurl.com/Everyman4167.
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.