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The Azed puzzle this week is the monthly competition puzzle where this month the puzzle is plain and one clue is simply a definition. Competitors are asked to write a clue for the … Read more >>
I got though this quite quickly, so either I’m getting better or this is at the easier end of the Azed spectrum. Thank you Azed for yet another fine puzzle.
It took me several sittings to (almost) complete this one. The puddings weren’t too difficult to identify, but some of the coins were new to me.
This was a puzzle where I got about half-way through without too much trouble, and then ground to a halt and took much longer to do the rest. Looking back I see that … Read more >>
Thank you Azed. I never get the least bit tired of solving and blogging these puzzles. I can’t explain why this as (specials apart) they have less variation than any other of the puzzles I solve.
A plain puzzle with a 13 x 11 grid for this month’s competiton. No doubt Azed will delight us with something more complex for the Christmas special later this month.
A normal plain puzzle from Azed this week, but one that I found quite difficult I think I have got the parsing right for all the clues, but I am … Read more >>
I bought a Chambers Dictionary app for my phone last week so I could solve puzzles in the coffee shop without having to cart the Big Red Book around. So I tried using it for Azed this week. It was clearly more efficient than using the paper copy but made me realize how much of the pleasure of solving Azed is not just in the words I look up but in all those other words I come across on the way. I spend as much time off on tangents as I do solving the puzzle. An efficient app that takes me directly to the entry in question free of distractions sounds good in principle but I don’t think I will be using it as first choice in future. Thanks to Azed for a super puzzle, as always.
Fairly straightforward Azed with perhaps a little over-reliance on archaic terms.
Presumably just by coincidence, this jigsaw puzzle appeared the day after an alphabetical jigsaw by Paul as the Guardian prize puzzle. I see that, also by coincidence, I blogged the two previous examples, … Read more >>
Another enjoyable hour or so trawling through the Big Red Book. Thank you Azed.
A relatively straightforward plain puzzle from Azed this week.
A standard plain puzzle from Azed this week. I think this would be a good introduction to Azed for anyone who has been hesitant in the past. Yes, many of … Read more >>
I don’t find as high a proportion of obscure words in Azed puzzles as I used to. I wonder if Azed is getting more accessible over the years or if I have done so many puzzles that I have seen them before. Can anyone comment on their own experience?
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Thank you Azed.
My first Azed blog since I returned to blogging, and thankfully it wasn’t too challenging.