Guardian 26,390 – Qaos

by

Another puzzle where I made a slow start, but then steady progress to the end. Looking back there’s nothing too difficult here, but a nice variety of clues. Thanks to the setter. I’m … Read more >>

Site Feedback

by

This page is where you can provide feedback relating to Fifteensquared or raise issues regarding the website itself. Comments posted before 12/11/14 can be found here. This post is now closed. New comments … Read more >>

General Discussion

by

This page is for the discussion of general crossword related matters and other topics of interest. Comments posted before 12/11/14 can be found here. This post is now closed. New comments can be … Read more >>

AZED 2,209

by

The first of Azed’s Letters Latent puzzles since VE(S)TAL in 2009. I won’t give the complete preamble since you have no doubt already seen it, but letters are missing from each answer whenever they occur and these missing letters make an appropriate seasonal quotation. The definition is to the whole word, the subsidiary indication to the word with letters missing. Two words are missing from this quotation and the first one is clued like all the rest in the puzzle; the second one is the competition clue-word.

In the answers I have given the omitted letters in lower-case.

The quotation (which I have to admit to finding using Google) was from Ernest Dowson: ‘pale amber sunlight falls across the [reddening October] trees’.

As with all Azed’s specials, this was much enjoyed.

Read more >>