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This will be the last Azed for The Observer under present management, a plain that is probably on the easier side. Let’s hope that his crosswords can continue in their present form.
Definitions underlined in crimson. Anagram indicators in italics.
A 12 x 12 grid with four 11 letter words, but no 4 letter ones.
It’s an Azed competition this week so one entry has no wordplay. Solvers can submit their own clue as part of competition.
Thanks to Azed for this puzzle. A couple of quibbles/queries noted below.
Apologies for the late blog.
Thanks to Azed for another quality puzzle.
A pleasant enough crossword from Azed this week, with no major comments to make, except that it has always struck me that his signposting of archaisms/obsolete words might be more consistent. We usually get things like ‘once’, ‘of old’, ‘no longer’ etc, but not always. Chambers tells us that the word is archaic or whatever but we are left to solve the clue without being aware of this.
Definitions underlined, in crimson. Anagram indicators in italics.
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It is a privilege to be able to blog this latest milestone in the Azed series.
Azed reaches a major milestone in his setting career today. We have a plain puzzle from last Sunday to consider first in this blog.
I believe I have managed to arrive at a plausible explanation for the solutions in this week’s offering from Azed . . .
Possibly my quickest Azed solve yet.