A fun puzzle from puzzle from Gozo of a form I have not seen before. You can download a PDF of the puzzle from the FT website here.
Independent 8779 / Dac
What is there to say about a Dac puzzle that hasn’t been said before? I could very easily just link to, or copy and paste from, the preamble I wrote four weeks ago. … Read more >>
Guardian 26,433 by Imogen
Well I’m back from a land down under and first up is Imogen, not really the name you want whilst jet lagged.
Inquisitor 1361: Unsteady by Gila
Preamble: Ten entries, clued without definition, may be sorted into pairs to provide five names associated with a protagonist, X. In all remaining clues, single extra letters involved in wordplay spell a further … Read more >>
Independent 9,778 by Radian
Three checked letters in a seven-letter answer is bad enough; two in a five-letter answer is even worse. Unless, some say, Radian has been constrained by a Nina and has been forced to use answers of this type. If he has (and of course I can’t see it) then perhaps this is justified. And anyway it’s only my view (but also that of some eminent others, I might add).
Pity, because much of this crossword is good, and there are some excellent clues. I particularly enjoyed 1dn.
Definitions underlined.
Financial Times No. 14,794 by SAYANG
Typical Tuesday fare here…
Guardian 26,432 by Picaroon
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26432.
Quiptic 785 by Hectence
Hectence returns to the Quiptic slot with a puzzle that I thought had just the right amount of head-scratching required to get the sluggish Monday morning brain into gear.
Guardian 26,431 / Rufus
A fairly typical Rufus puzzle, with the accustomed mix of anagrams and double and cryptic definitions [a couple of which I found a bit puzzling]. Thanks to him for a genial start to … Read more >>
Independent 8777/Raich
Always a little smile when I see that it’s Raich for my Monday Indy blog. Enjoyed this one, but there were some that I struggled to see and parse. It yielded in the … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1,292 by eXternal
I found this one a whole lot harder than any other IoS puzzle I have blogged. There are still a couple I can’t completely explain. Good fun, but I am glad I had plenty of time to sole this one! Thanks eXternal.
Everyman 3555/23 November
I often find with Everyman that his references make me go and look up stuff that I kind of knew, but had forgotten. So once I’d finished solving the puzzle this morning I … Read more >>
AZED 2,216
Scots, Scots and more Scots. Nonetheless, with help from that well-known Scots dictionary, Chambers, managed the slog. Not the most easy of Azed’s but eventually I think I tamed it.
Guardian Prize 26,424 by Paul
Thanks, Paul for an enjoyable and topical prize puzzle that was characteristically witty (but no lavatory humour this week!).