Everyman 3,803

The Observer crossword from Sep 1, 2019.

I never thought it would happen but I actually quite like the Everyman crosswords nowadays.

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Everyman 3,802/25 August

I enjoyed this Everyman offering. Getting used to his or her ‘trademarks’ – linked clues and a propensity for clue-as-definition devices – helped the solve along. What did you make of it?   … Read more >>

Everyman 3,799

The Observer crossword from Aug 4, 2019

The ‘new’ Everyman’s style is becoming quite a consistent one.

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Everyman 3,798/28 July

Another sound enough offering from Everyman this morning, but with one clue where the instruction is missing and a few – in my opinion at least – with rather random surface readings.   … Read more >>

Everyman 3,797

As the preamble says, this is an anniversary puzzle. And with lots of other coverage of the same anniversary in the last week or so, it’s not hard to guess the subject.

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Everyman 3,794/30 June

Another enjoyable puzzle from Everyman, but one where I suspect less experienced solvers will be saying ‘too hard’. I could be wrong.         Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>

Everyman 3,791

The Observer crossword from June 9, 2019

This Everyman puzzle took me an hour to finish, which was about the same amount of time that I spent on the Guardian’s Prize from Paul.
Perhaps, I wasn’t in the right mindset but my conclusion must be ‘this was quite hard’.

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