Never knowingly undersolved
The blog for Azed 2,729 (“Give and Take)” will now appear a week later than normal (October 20) due to the following announcement that is due to appear in the Observer on Sunday, … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4067.
Recently I’ve been solving Azeds quite quickly; on this one, however, I made rather a slow start, but once I’d got a few answers in the rest came reasonably smoothly. Thanks to Azed. … Read more >>
A medium-difficulty Azed plain. I was a bit surprised to see two homophone clues: these always excite comment from people whose regional accents don’t make them obvious and Azed has in the past expressed misgivings about using such clues, for just this reason. In my case although I don’t have a regional accent one of them I pronounce differently from what is intended. But never mind; I won’t (like some) make an issue of it: it’s quite obvious what is intended.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics.
Sunday, so time to take Jenny the dog for a walk in the woods and swim in the sea & then retire to the pub for gravy bones for her, beers plural and the Everyman for me.
Another carefully compiled puzzle from Everyman this week. All the usual elements are there: the primary letters clue, the rhyming couplet, the self-reference. Some original clueing as well in a couple of places, … Read more >>
A 13 by 11 grid this week, although Azed has chosen to use a grid which only allows him one 13 letter word.
Apart from one or two small criticisms that appear in the blog, this is a good well-constructed crossword. Everyman seems to be paying more attention to the surfaces of his clues nowadays. It’s quite impressive that he manages to produce a pleasant crossword week after week, with all the restrictions that he imposes on himself (the rhyming pairs, the first letters clue, the self-reference).
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (anagram, homophone, hidden, juxtaposition, etc) in italics. Anagrams shown (like this)* or *(like this). Link-words in green.
We have a plain puzzle from Azed this week. There didn’t seem to be as many really obscure entries this week compared to some others. However the 1 across and … Read more >>
Azed is in classic form.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4063.
Final Bank Holiday of the summer and it’s time to blog the Everyman
A plain Azed.
A long answer at 1 across can be helpful in getting into a puzzle, but in this case I needed a lot of crossing letters to work it out. Apart from that it … Read more >>
Another pleasing and sound cryptic from Everyman. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed definitions are underlined Across 1 When … Read more >>