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Azed 1992

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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

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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 >>

Everyman 3,330

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A lot of double definitions this week and one clue that I’m not completely sure about although looks as though it might be a dd (any help much appreciated). Otherwise not the easiest … Read more >>

Azed 1990 – Troy Troy Troy again

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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 >>

AZED No. 1,989 Plain

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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 >>

Everyman 3328

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Goodness me! This one was a toughie by Everyman standards with some less common abbreviations creeping in (RR for Bishop rather than B for example), and some less common knowledge required (including in … Read more >>

Azed 1988

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I found this puzzle considerably harder than usual, partly as a result of my failure early on to solve any of the four long clues which form the border to the puzzle. I … Read more >>

Azed 1987: Between overs…

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While many of you were watching England’s unfortunate demise in South Africa last Sunday, I was sitting on the top deck of an almost deserted Lord’s pavilion, watching a T20 match between the … Read more >>

Everyman 3326

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I have to say I didn’t really enjoy this one. Compared to the tight cluing of the best Everymans (Everymen?) this seemed to be quite sloppy in places. For example, 5dn is a … Read more >>

Azed 1986/Scotland Yard

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Sorry for the late blog… no excuses (OK other than 48 World Cup games + Wimbledon). I thought this slightly harder than the run-of-the-mill Azed (oxymoron?). No lack of the requisite mysteries. Across … Read more >>

Azed 1985

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The usual pleasurable experience. All the clues are utterly sound and you know you’ll get there in the end, even if the progress is a bit slow. The words are — in this … Read more >>