The puzzle may be found as a pdf at https://www.tinyurl.com/Everyman4151.
Observer
Azed No. 2,779
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)*
Everyman 4,150/3 May 2026
Not quite your standard Everyman…
Everyman 4.149/26 April
Everyman on good form as usual. Just one clue I found a little clunky.
Gemelo No. 32
Perhaps the most Azed-like puzzle from Gemelo yet.
Everyman 4,148
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 31
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 >>
Everyman 4,148
From the editorial team:
Apologies to anyone solving this weekend’s competition crossword
Everyman 4,147
The puzzle may be found as a pdf at https://www.tinyurl.com/Everyman4147.
Gemelo No. 30
A surprisingly approachable offering from Gemelo this week.
Everyman 4,146/5 April
Another bit of Sunday fun from Everyman
Azed No. 2,778
Not a typical Azed plain this week.
Everyman 4.145/29 March
All the trademark clues present as usual in this week’s offering from Everyman. Some straightforward anagrams to give you a foothold, then a grid that fell out nicely, for this solver at least.
Gemelo 29
I think I’m gradually getting the hang of this setter: a few tricky moments but less of a struggle than I’ve found some of his work. Thanks to Gemelo.
Gemelo No. 28 – Plain
After the brilliant Gemelo 27 with its Spoonerisms etc, we are now back to a plain Gemelo, and it seemed to me to be harder, possibly because I was solving at the computer (the software that I normally use has been tripped up by The Observer’s changes and this blog will look a bit different) with my reference books on my lap — I hadn’t learnt how to print a pdf, which thanks to The Observer I know now. There are two whose parsing is at present beyond me and which I hope to understand while I’m doing the blog. [Later: no].
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 some sort of red, underlined. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*