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Azed No 2266

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A 13 by 11 grid for this week’s plain Azed puzzle.  Unfortunately, for technical reasons, I can’t include a picture of the completed puzzle.

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Azed 2265

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An Azed Competition puzzle this week but it was a plain one.       There is one clue for which I can’t even begin to see the word play and that’s 12 … Read more >>

Everyman 3603

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A sound puzzle from Everyman this morning.  One or two clues were a bit convoluted for my liking, but otherwise the usual approachable stuff.       Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition dd  double … Read more >>

AZED 2264

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This time on the easier end of the Azed spectrum (did I just say that Azed is on the spectrum??).  Didn’t find myself drowning in Chambers as much as dabbling.  A question for readers: when should an archaic usage be indicated and when is it acceptable not to do so? Azed seems to be ambivalent.

Azed 2263 — ‘Eightsome reels’

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This is something Azed only occasionally does, to have one of his specials on a non-clue-setting-competition day. I don’t know how many solvers there are who do the n-c-s-c puzzles but not the c-s-c ones, … Read more >>

Azed 2262 – oops!

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By the “breakfast test” this counted as quite easy on the Azed spectrum, even though in retrospect it seems to have quite a high proportion of unfamiliar words. Unusually, there are only 34 … Read more >>

AZED 2,261

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There were several hidden word clues in here and one or two straightforward anagrams.  These got me off to a flying start but once the the ‘gifts’ had petered out I stuggled.  Quite hard I thought.  Thanks Azed.

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Everyman 3599

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If I had a brain, I would be dangerous.  Tuned in to Fifteensquared this morning to see what folk made of last week’s Everyman, discovered the blog wasn’t there and suddenly realised that … Read more >>