Financial Times 14,803 by BRADMAN

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It is Friday, and it is Bradman at the FT so no surprises there. The Don serves up another delectable offering with an excellent mix of smooth surfaces and ingenious constructions. Quite an enjoyable solve with the SE quadrant nearly being a showstopper for me. There are a couple of clues though which I have a minor quibble about but nothing significant.

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Guardian Cryptic 26440 Paul

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(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 that wasn’t much of … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,801 by AARDVARK

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A fine crossword from Aardvark.  Not a hard puzzle, but one that I would have finished much more quickly if there had not been so many obvious paths to the solution that turned into dead ends.  I’m sure he does it on purpose!  Thanks Aardvark.

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Financial Times 14,793 – Dante

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Monday Prize Crossword/Dec 1 Despite some very easy clues (16ac, 6d, 21d, 25d) I must say that I found this quite a difficult puzzle that took me much longer than the average Dante/Rufus. … Read more >>

Beelzebub 1,291

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A slightly hurried post just to get back up to date. As it happens, I’ve made very few notes or scribbles, suggesting this one wasn’t expecially problematic. *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed. Across 1 SCOUTH … Read more >>

Guardian 26,438 / Puck

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I count myself fortunate to have drawn a Puck puzzle to blog. There is some very inventive and whimsical cluing here, along with lovely story-telling surfaces, as usual with this setter, leading to … Read more >>