I found this easier than usual, but all the more enjoyable for it. Thank you Azed.
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AZED 2,343
A Printer’s Devilry puzzle for this month’s competition.
Azed 2,342
For the first time in three or four years I solved the Azed last Sunday. Whether this was due to luck or premonition is anybody’s guess, but I heard a couple of hours … Read more >>
AZED 2,341
Not particularly hard for an Azed — but this was really a solve-by-committee (of work colleagues — thanks Martin and Frank!) so hard to gauge really. Some very nice surfaces (I liked the googly clue for obvious reasons).
AZED 2,340
A typical Azed. Good clues and the necessity for Chambers to verify all the unusual words.
The Observer only seems to have made one mistake this week, at 26dn.
Azed 2339
Quite an easy one this week (on the Azed scale at least), which I mostly polished off in less than half an hour, apart from one or two stragglers that needed a glance … Read more >>
AZED 2,338
Azed leads us on a very enjoyable ramble though some of the lesser-used parts of the English language, places one would never find without such a knowledgeable guide. Thank you Azed.
AZED 2,337
A straightforward plain after last week’s Carte Blanche.
Azed 2366
An Azed Carte Blanche this week. No clue numbers given, no bars in the grid. You have to work it all out I enjoyed this where we had to do … Read more >>
AZED 2,335/OPSIMATHY
Well, I learnt quite a bit. So definitely an opsimathic experience. For me. I think this was in the easy to medium range for Azed. Though I might have left a wordplay or two behind.
AZED 2,334
The usual good-quality Azed competition puzzle: everything seems to be soundly clued.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
In the preamble it says ‘NB Competition clues submitted should begin with an appropriate letter so as to complete a hidden message‘. I spent ages trying to find this hidden message.
Azed 2333
I rattled through most of this very quickly, but took at least as long again on the last half-dozen clues (I think the SW corner was the last to fall). Thanks to Azed … Read more >>
AZED No 2,332 Plain
All present and correct. I found this very pleasurable, not the hardest AZED but a nicely consistent level of difficulty from the start to the finish. Thank you Azed.
AZED 2,331
Only one error (and that only the numbering of a clue) in a plain Azed this week.
Azed 2330 – Right & Left Competition Puzzle
An Azed competition puzzle this week – one of his ‘Right and Left’ offerings where each written clue is formed of two clues side by side without telling you which yields an answer in … Read more >>