AZED 2,476 by Azed

Always a pleasure, thank you Azed.   ACROSS 1 ORCHESTRALIST Musician, vocal practitioner taking in right dresser (13) ORALIST (vocal practitioner) contains R (right) CHEST (dresser) 11 HERACLEAN Goddess, entirely heroic (9) HERA … Read more >>

Everyman 3,814/17 November

My blogging colleague Quirister described last week’s puzzle as ‘occasionally a bit untidy but generally fun’. I can’t find a better description of this week’s Everyman, so it’s déjà vu all over again. … Read more >>

Everyman 3,813

Everyman as we’ve come to expect: occasionally a bit untidy but generally fun. As we’ve often seen recently, there are some rather loose definitions and slightly vague indicators in wordplay. However, there are … Read more >>

Azed 2474

Azed provides us with our weekly crossword challenge and opportunity to increase our vocabulary.       It was a plain Azed this week with a good mix of well known and obscure … Read more >>

Everyman 3,812

The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3812. Everyman seemingly on a new tack; I thought it distinctly harder than previous offerings, and I see no trace of the linked answers which have been … Read more >>

Everyman 3,811

The Observer crossword from Oct 27, 2019

Another Everyman crossword that will please some and, in places, annoy others.

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AZED 2,472 by Azed

A plain Azed that I solved at a steady pace. I was able to complete all bar the SE corner without resorting to Chambers, so this must have been a fairly straightforward offering. … Read more >>

Azed 2471

It gets harder and harder to say anything new about Azed – just another top-quality puzzle, as ever. I thought I’d caught him out in an error in 22d, but not surprisingly the … Read more >>

Everyman 3,810/20 October

A decent enough puzzle from Everyman for this week, but I do have a couple of niggles.       Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram … Read more >>

AZED 2,470 Plain

What is there left to say? Thank you Azed for yet another interesting puzzle. Apologies for the late arrival of the blog, I messed up with the scheduled publish time. ACROSS 1 OLD-FOGEYISH … Read more >>