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Financial Times No. 14,827 by NEO

Wed January 14, 2015 at 12:48 amTue January 13, 2015 at 4:50 am by Bhavan

Entertaining puzzle this.

Guardian 26,466 – Rufus (updated from placeholder)

Mon January 12, 2015 at 3:45 pmMon January 12, 2015 at 11:11 am by manehi

Due to some nasty delays at the airport I won’t be able to blog until 2pm (UK) or so, but discuss away!

Blog now updated – thanks for the comments, and the good wishes.

Found this both easier and more fun than usual for Rufus, most likely because I was, for once, on the right wavelength for most of the many cryptic and double defs. Favourites were 13dn and 21dn…

Independent 8812/Kairos

Mon January 12, 2015 at 7:30 am by Pierre

I’ve really enjoyed the last few Kairos puzzles that I’ve solved and blogged, but this one contained some stuff that I wasn’t enamoured with. Some really remote synonyms are my main complaint. Took … Read more >>

Guardian Quiptic 791 Hectence

Mon January 12, 2015 at 11:00 amMon January 12, 2015 at 5:14 am by scchua

(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) An enjoyable puzzle, thanks to Hectence. … Read more >>

Guardian Quiptic 791 with Picture Quiz

Mon January 12, 2015 at 11:01 amMon January 12, 2015 at 5:00 am by scchua

(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An enjoyable puzzle, thanks to Hectence. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 … Read more >>

Beelzebub 1,296

Sun January 11, 2015 at 12:52 pm by Simon Harding

Gosh, quite a tough week for me. Browsing the answers it’s not hard to see why. There’s a lot of unfamiliar stuff in there, either whole terms or just alternative spellings. Which we … Read more >>

Everyman 3,561

Sun January 11, 2015 at 1:44 pmSun January 11, 2015 at 12:01 am by PeterO

The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3561.

Independent on Sunday 1298/Daedalus

Sun January 11, 2015 at 12:01 am by Pierre

I think we have a debut puzzle here from Daedalus. Unless he is Logodaedalus in disguise. Unlike Daedelus’ son in Greek legend, I didn’t warm to it much. There are some where I’m … Read more >>

AZED 2,222

Sun January 11, 2015 at 5:05 amSun January 11, 2015 at 12:01 am by ilancaron

I solved this rather quickly (for me) and didn’t find myself abusing Chambers. A relatively healthy number of &lits but I struggled to understand the definition of DAFT until an email friend helped me out of my misery.

Enigmatic Variations 1154 Crackers by Charismatix

Sat January 10, 2015 at 10:42 amSat January 10, 2015 at 12:05 am by twencelas

The pre Christmas EV is a joke themed puzzle from a new setter (or was it a collaboration?). Can the jokes be as bad as a real cracker jokes? If so what about … Read more >>

Guardian prize 26,459 / Puck

Sat January 10, 2015 at 12:02 am by Eileen

What a treat to get a Puck puzzle for my first Prize blog of the new year! I solved and blogged this the day after solving and blogging an uncharacteristically squeaky-clean Paul puzzle. … Read more >>

Independent 8805 (Sat 3rd January 2015) Tyrus

Sat January 10, 2015 at 10:57 amSat January 10, 2015 at 12:01 am by beermagnet

As is usual from Tyrus this was a pretty hard puzzle. Maybe not as hard as 8776 back in November which had me terribly stuck, but at the start of this one … Read more >>

Inquisitor Review of 2014 – The Results

Thu January 15, 2015 at 11:07 amFri January 9, 2015 at 12:21 pm by Admin

From John Henderson (Nimrod et al) … I’ll get me ’at Inquisitor solvers, it seems, are a perverse bunch. For the second year running, the IQ Award has been won by the puzzle … Read more >>

Independent 8,810 by Phi

Fri April 19, 2019 at 9:09 amFri January 9, 2015 at 10:39 am by John

Phi’s crosswords are almost like Dac’s: there is really very little to say, because all the clues are straightforward and have a nice surface. One can talk about the Nina, but in Phi’s case either — and this is quite often — he doesn’t have one, or it hardly cries out to me and I lazily prefer to let others find it.

Definitions underlined.

Financial Times 14,824 by BRADMAN

Fri January 9, 2015 at 8:00 amFri January 9, 2015 at 6:53 am by Turbolegs

This serving from the Don can be aptly likened to being a Jekyll-and-Hyde type of grid – polarized between some very easy clues and some true brain-busters.