Never knowingly undersolved
All the usual Everyman things are here and indicated (except that I’ve missed one square, which won’t bother you) in the grid. Nice crossword despite a couple about which I’m unsure.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (homophone, hidden, containment, anagram, juxtaposition, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green.
A medium-difficulty Gemelo this week.
Apologies for the late arrival of this blog. I’ve been away on holiday and had got my dates muddled up. In the interests of getting it published today I’ve kept the explanations brief: … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found as a pdf at https://www.tinyurl.com/Everyman4151.
A medium-difficulty crossword from Azed. There seemed to me to be lots of answers where the parsing involves an anagram, but now I count them it’s not so excessive (25%).
My guess is that anyone who does these crosswords will have a copy of Chambers to hand and so won’t need everything to be spelled out. In the parsing I have confined myself to explaining when the wordplay is not immediately clear.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*
Not quite your standard Everyman…
Everyman on good form as usual. Just one clue I found a little clunky.
Perhaps the most Azed-like puzzle from Gemelo yet.
It seems that Everyman is now a solid setter and this is typical of his nice output. Although I am in a little doubt at times there are no weak clues. The usual trademarks are there and indicated by colours in the grid, which has an addition: the long one-word anagram. [I missed one of the rhyming pairs.]
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (homophone, hidden, containment, anagram, juxtaposition, etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green.
Gemelo gives a special puzzle this week. We were presented with a set of clues that looked like this; It took me a while to get into this puzzle, as I didn’t see … Read more >>
From the editorial team:
Apologies to anyone solving this weekend’s competition crossword
The puzzle may be found as a pdf at https://www.tinyurl.com/Everyman4147.
A surprisingly approachable offering from Gemelo this week.
Another bit of Sunday fun from Everyman
Not a typical Azed plain this week.