Azed

Nick:  Fairly easy AZED this week – albeit with the usual Scottish words nobody has heard of 🙂 Legend to solution comments: * = anagram. < = word reversed. Across 4. Fool bagging … Read more >>

A fairly easy offering this week, I thought, although there were a couple of four letter words that required some care.  As I have done before, here’s a link to the pdf of … Read more >>

After the challenge of last week, a pretty gentle Azed. This was mostly solvable from the wordplay alone, though I needed Chambers to check a few things. Blogged rather in haste, as I … Read more >>

We all knew this puzzle would be some kind of special, but I doubt many guessed the exact kind correctly. It turned out that two letters had to be removed from the answers … Read more >>

With the exception of one or two answers that are still beyond me, I found this very much the usual Azed, with good sound wordplay. Much wading through Chambers: Azed always seems to … Read more >>

By swapping blog duty with Peter, I think I accidentally managed to avoid Azed 2000 which I suspect will be more than the run-of-the-mill challenge. Across 1 S(PUDDING)IN – initial drilling of a … Read more >>

I found this another reasonably easy Azed – I managed to finish all but a couple of clues in about an hour without using references. Lots of good stuff as always, with the … Read more >>

Nick:  A slightly more difficult AZED this week, I felt.  I am afraid I am totally beat with the explanation of 1ac, but I am sure readers here will enlighten me. The blog … Read more >>

I managed to solve about three-quarters of this puzzle without any assistance from Chambers or the internet.  It’s surprising what being on holiday in remote places can do for the brain.   However, I … Read more >>

A fairly straightforward Azed, with not too much tricky wordplay; quite a few words that needed confirmation from Chambers, though. I may have misunderstood the wordplay at 11a. Thanks to people who pointed … Read more >>

The standard, routine, par for the course, vanilla wordplays waiting for reader enlightenment. Across 1 BARON,G – it’s broad-bladed knife 6 M,AVENS – indeed AVENS is a rosaceous plant 12 ETOURD*,ERIE – stupid … Read more >>

What you always get from Azed: apparently tortuous clues, but everything’s do-able so long as you persevere with all the wading through Chambers, because all the clueing is completely sound. Across 1 WIT-CRACKER … Read more >>

Azed 1991 – Ars Magna Clues led to two words which were anagrams of each other – the definition provided one, and the wordplay the other. In the lists below, the definition word … Read more >>

A pretty easy Azed this week: with some judicious guessing of unfamiliar words (which one gets quite good at after solving these puzzles for several decades) I managed to finish this in less … Read more >>

Nick:  A perhaps more difficult AZED this week, due to the strange grid having two words per quarter connecting each ‘mini-grid’;  for me, this made it like four very small crosswords, with the … Read more >>