Azed 2411

Quite a high proportion of obscure words in this one, I think, but even so I managed to finish it quite quickly, and almost entirely without aids, thanks to educated guesswork resulting from … Read more >>

Everyman 3750/26 August

The usual mixture of charades, insertions and anagrams from Everyman, with some typical multi-part clues. And a little milestone for me today too.         Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double … Read more >>

Azed 2,410 – Rama’s Nag

The instructions for this puzzle were as follows:

Clues are of two types. In each of the acrosses, the cryptic
part leads to the answer to be entered and the definition part
leads to an anagram of that answer. In each of the downs, the
definition part leads to the answer to be entered and the (cryptic)
remainder leads to an anagram of that answer. All grid entries
and anagrams thereof are in the Chambers Dictionary (2014),
except for two proper names (one biblical and one geographical).
Bracketed numbers refer throughout to grid entries. Anagrams of
entries at 15 Across and 6 Down each consist of two words.

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Everyman 3,747

The Observer crossword from Aug 5, 2018

I went pretty slow through this fine crossword. That was probably because my head was still filled with music after my stay at ….

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Azed 2408

This puzzle continues my run of plain Azeds.       It was a competition puzzle this week with competitors required to write a clue for LUNCHEONETTE, the entry at 3 down. There was … Read more >>

Everyman 3746/29 July

As always, I enjoyed solving and blogging this Everyman crossword. He’s good, you know.         Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = … Read more >>

AZED 2,407

Another Sunday, another guided tour through the lesser known regions of the dictionary.  Most enjoyable as always, thank you Azed.

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Everyman 3,745

A most pleasant Everyman, my word creating easy to solve but elegantly clued crosswords can’t be easy. However I printed it out, I appeared to be in a Listener type twilight zone when I looked at the clues.

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Azed 2405

I solved this quite quickly, but fully parsing some of the the clues took a while, and I’m not completely satisfied with my explanation of 11d, unless the clue is uncharacteristically loose, which seems unlikely. Thanks to Azed.

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Everyman 3,743

The Observer crossword from July 8, 2018

Some Everyman puzzles are (slightly) harder than others. This one was somewhere in the middle, nicely pitched, precise and a joy to solve.

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