Another solid offering from Everyman for our Sunday entertainment.
Observer
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.
Gemelo 40
Gemelo gives us a special puzzle this week where, for 12 entries, we have to put the opposite of the clue answer into the grid.
Everyman 4,159
The puzle may be found as a pdf at tinyurl.com/Everyman4159 or (behind a paywall or as a free trial) at https://observer.co.uk/puzzles/everyman/article/everyman-no-4159 in interactive form.
Azed No. 2,781
It is starting to feel like a privilege to have an Azed land on my rotation.
Gemelo No. 39
Apologies for the late blog…
Everyman 4,158/28 June 2026
A PDF of this puzzle can be found at https://tinyurl.com/Everyman4158
Everyman 4,157/21 June
All the usual Everyman trademarks in this Sunday’s puzzle.
Gemelo 38
Thanks to Gemelo for another ingeniously clued puzzle.
Everyman 4,156
Most of the usual things are here and highlighted in the grid. A pleasant crossword from Everyman, and the only criticisms are not very major and indicated in the blog.
Definitions in crimson (?? It looks as if I’ve made a mistake in setting things: the answers are in crimson but not the definitions; sorry), underlined. Indicators (homophone, hidden, containment, anagram, juxtaposition, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green.
Gemelo No. 37
An excellent crossword, not easy but — as should be the case — its difficulties were conquerable with some persistence. It seems to me that, with one or two very very slight exceptions, Gemelo has been scrupulous in his accuracy.
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.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*
Everyman 4,155
The puzzle may be found as a pdf at https://tinyurl.com/Everyman4155.
Azed No. 2,780
It’s the first Sunday of the month, so it’s Azed’s turn to provide our weekly barred puzzle.
Everyman 4,154/31 May 2026
A PDF of last week’s puzzle can be found here: https://content-api.slowdownwiseup.co.uk/api/mobile/v1/puzzle-data/1f7c315e-6b87-40ad-90cc-ddd7ea87556a/file/puzzle.pdf