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Lorraine: Good morning one and all. Great crossword this week, new to me this week was 4dn. Never heard of hugger-mugger before, it is not often at my age that you get to learn … Read more >>
A standard Azed this week with its usual mix of everyday and obscure words, all delivered from precise cluing. There’s always a few clues that give you a foothold, even … Read more >>
On the easier end of the Azed scale – but nonetheless required dipping into the BRB. Attached is the raw grid I scribbled on just for fun. azed_2180 Across 1 C(H,L,O)RACNE – h,l,o … Read more >>
Always a pleasure to solve and blog an Everyman. The usual combination of smooth surfaces and accessible clueing. The enumeration for one of the clues struck me as unusual, but perhaps others have … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning to you all, Very good smooth crossword this week with lovely cluing. I sometimes look too deeply into the clues and miss the bleedin’ obvious, which is what I did with … Read more >>
How Azed manages to cope with all these words I simply don’t know. Practically every time there is at least one that I’ve never heard of either in the answer or in the … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3517. When I solved this, there seemed to be quite a lot of misdirection this time out, with a dash of geography thrown in amongst the general … Read more >>
A nice easy clue to the long 1 across gave me a good start to this, and I rattled through most of it prety quickly, though with a handful stragglers that needed a … Read more >>
Nick; Fairly difficult Azed this week. Also it didn’t help with the typo at 29dn which caused me a bit of head scratching for a while. Across 1. Upper crust gathering accompanied … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning to you all. Absolutely enjoyed this weeks offering. Lots of favourites especially 19ac, 23ac and 1dn. Excellent cluing throughout the whole crossword. Many thanks to Everyman, without you our Sundays would … Read more >>
Another plain puzzle from Azed, with the usual combination of obscure and familiar words.
As usual, a pleasing and solver-friendly puzzle from Everyman. One or two tricky ones thrown in this morning, I thought, but a bit of head-scratching and some crossing letters saved the day. … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good Morning to you all, Pleasant solve I felt with plenty of anagrams and easy to follow cluing. So many favourites, too numerous to mention them all. All in all a most enjoyable … Read more >>
Having had a Competition Puzzle from Azed last week it was likely that this puzzle would be a standard one. That is how it turned out. The wordplay in this … Read more >>
Not my forte. In fact I think this is the first time I’ve tried to solve a PD puzzle (so you really do have to ask yourself, why am I “the official blogger?”). … Read more >>