Azed

A quick, but very fun Easter Sunday solve.   The preamble for this puzzle reads: Each numbered square in the diagram is surrounded by eight blank squares. All clues lead to answers of … Read more >>

The competition puzzle that isn’t: “We regret that prizes for our puzzles are temporarily suspended” says the website. I got through this one reasonably quickly, and didn’t have too much trouble writing up … Read more >>

Sorry for the late posting.  All good, as usual. Thank you Azed. ACROSS 1 BADASS Tough US fish cut by heavy knife (6) BASS (fish) contains DA (heavy knife) 6 CADENT Falling for … Read more >>

As usual Azed gives a challenge this week.       I started fairly strongly with a couple of foodie entries – SCRAMBLED EGGS at 1 across and NOODLES at 14 across. In … Read more >>

I did not need the dictionary as much as usual this week – Azed is being kind to us. Thank you Azed. ACROSS 1 BRIDGE THE GAP To supply need, girl (saintly?) introduces … Read more >>

My apologies for the formatting of this blog, but the excellent utility that I (and many other bloggers) use to write the blogs does not appear to recognise this week’s puzzle. The puzzle … Read more >>

After last week’s tricky Letters Latent puzzle, this one was a lot gentler, though of the usual high quality. Thanks to Azed.             Across 1. SHAMBA Plot devising … Read more >>

A tricky puzzle that took me a long while to finish, but very satisfying once it was all done. Thank you Azed. I don’t think the clues were any harder than usual but … Read more >>

As usual the first Azed of the month is a competition puzzle.  This time it is a standard plain       Azed frequently includes Scots words as entries, but today he went … Read more >>

I found this easier than usual. Azed has one of the most consistent levels of difficulty of any setter I know, so I attribute this quick solve to my being in a sharper … Read more >>

Not too hard on the Azed scale, but as always I leaned some new words (most of which I will probably forget until the next time they tirne up) and a few interesting … Read more >>

My weekly fix of obscure words. Thank you Azed. ACROSS 1 PRESBYACUSIS One’s drunk by saucer-sips – sign of progressive senility (12) anagram (one’s drunk?) of BY SAUCER SIPS 10 RUBAI Persian verse … Read more >>