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Azed 2270

Sun December 13, 2015 at 11:14 amSun December 13, 2015 at 12:01 am by ilancaron

Making do without Paul’s awesome crossword utility is hard… but I somehow managed. Kind of a medium level difficulty Azed — usual Chambers trawling. There’s one wordplay that I’m unsure of — and a few … Read more >>

Azed 2269 Plain

Sun December 6, 2015 at 12:05 am by John

Being of a pedantic turn, I was struck by several little things that weren’t quite right here: 19dn is given as (6) when it is (7); 22dn is given as 23dn; whoever typed out … Read more >>

Azed 2268

Sun November 29, 2015 at 12:01 am by Andrew

Mostly fairly easy on the Azed scale, though I struggled with the intersecting 4-letter words at 27d and 32a, which had rather unhelpful checked letters (?OA? and ?A?E), and quite tricky clues. Thanks … Read more >>

AZED No 2,267 Misprints

Sun November 22, 2015 at 8:46 amSun November 22, 2015 at 12:00 am by PeeDee

The instructions for this excellent puzzle state:

Each of the across clues contains a misprint of one letter, always occurring in the definition part. Answers should be entered correctly spelt. Down clues are normal but their answers are to be entered with a misprint of one letter only in each, always in a checked position. These misprints correspond to the misprints in the across clues, in clue order, i.e. 1 Across/1 Down, 6 Across/2 Down … 33 Across/28 Down. No more than one letter in any across answer forms the misprint in a down entry.

Azed No 2266

Sun November 15, 2015 at 12:05 am by bridgesong

A 13 by 11 grid for this week’s plain Azed puzzle. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, I can’t include a picture of the completed puzzle.

Azed 2265

Sun November 8, 2015 at 12:01 am by duncanshiell

An Azed Competition puzzle this week but it was a plain one. There is one clue for which I can’t even begin to see the word play and that’s 12 … Read more >>

AZED 2264

Sun November 1, 2015 at 8:33 amSun November 1, 2015 at 12:01 am by ilancaron

This time on the easier end of the Azed spectrum (did I just say that Azed is on the spectrum??). Didn’t find myself drowning in Chambers as much as dabbling. A question for readers: when should an archaic usage be indicated and when is it acceptable not to do so? Azed seems to be ambivalent.

Azed 2263 — ‘Eightsome reels’

Sun October 25, 2015 at 10:46 pmSun October 25, 2015 at 12:30 am by John

This is something Azed only occasionally does, to have one of his specials on a non-clue-setting-competition day. I don’t know how many solvers there are who do the n-c-s-c puzzles but not the c-s-c ones, … Read more >>

Azed 2262 – oops!

Sun October 18, 2015 at 12:05 am by Andrew

By the “breakfast test” this counted as quite easy on the Azed spectrum, even though in retrospect it seems to have quite a high proportion of unfamiliar words. Unusually, there are only 34 … Read more >>

AZED 2,261

Sun October 11, 2015 at 5:54 pmSun October 11, 2015 at 12:00 am by PeeDee

There were several hidden word clues in here and one or two straightforward anagrams. These got me off to a flying start but once the the ‘gifts’ had petered out I stuggled. Quite hard I thought. Thanks Azed.

AZED 2,260

Sun October 4, 2015 at 9:00 amSun October 4, 2015 at 12:05 am by bridgesong

Azed gives us 4 12-letter words or phrases in this week’s plain puzzle.

Azed 2259

Sun September 27, 2015 at 12:01 am by duncanshiell

A plain Azed this week I found this to be a fairly standard Azed where 99% of the time you know whether you have got it right. There is one … Read more >>

AZED 2,258

Sun September 20, 2015 at 7:06 amSun September 20, 2015 at 12:01 am by ilancaron

I thought this had more that its fair share of clues on the harder end of the spectrum. Dare I say I understand all definitions and wordplay (yes, I know, I’m begging to be corrected).

Azed 2257 — Right & Left

Sun September 13, 2015 at 12:05 am by John

It seems that Azed gives us one of these specials, or something like it, every two or three years, and very enjoyable it is. Although, as he says himself in his preamble, ‘The … Read more >>

Azed 2256

Sun September 6, 2015 at 12:05 am by Andrew

On my scale of “how much did I finish while and shortly after eating my breakfast?” I think this one came in as medium-strength. A good selection of unfamiliar words, but even these … Read more >>