Never knowingly undersolved
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 >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3513.
Lorraine: Good Morning to you all, I must apologize now for not replying to any comments this week but Nick and I are in Northern Cyprus. I will however have a look as soon … Read more >>
As always, a pleasant wade through a whole lot of words that one has never heard of. If I explained them all this blog would take ages to read and write, so I … Read more >>
This was in the “not too difficult” category of Azed puzzles, at least as far as completing the grid was concerned. As often happens, confirming all the details to complete the blog took … Read more >>
Another fine Sunday puzzle from Everyman. Plenty of charades today and some characteristically clever anagrams. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) … Read more >>
Nick: Some unusually unusual words this week from Azed, with several I did not know of – however a lot of these are clued rather easily with clear word play. I had to use … Read more >>