Nutmeg returns, some tricky stuff today.
Independent 8719/Quixote
Quixote setting and me blogging on a Wednesday? The Indy crossword world is upside down. Not really: Quixote seems to be taking over the last Wednesday of the month slot; and I’m off … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1351: How to spell CAT by Phi
Preamble: Six words, occupying three rows of the grid in total, are clued without their common definition. Using that common definition, with particular reference to one of the six and an answer elsewhere … Read more >>
Independent 8,718 / Scorpion
Scorpion has filled today’s slot with a puzzle that befits Ryder Cup week. References to golf abound in this puzzle, either in clues – e.g. 4, 25D – or solutions – e.g. 8, … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,734 by ARMONIE
Nice and easy crossword. Lots of lovely clues with good surface stories throughout. Thanks ARMONIE
Guardian 26,372 by Otterden
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26372.
Guardian Quiptic 775 Provis
(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.) Sorry for the late blog, as … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 775 with Picture Quiz
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Sorry for the late blog, as this puzzle was indexed wrongly on the Guardian … Read more >>
Independent 8,717 by Crosophile
A sweet musical interlude from Crosophile today
Guardian 26,371 / Rufus
A bit of a mixture from Rufus today – mostly straightforward but one or two [22ac, 23dn] needed a bit more thought. As usual, a number of double and cryptic definitions – but … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1,280
About average difficulty this week, I’d say, with some very interesting bits and bobs of language in there. I did have to cheat quite shamelessly to get AMICUS CURIAE and PRECISIVE, though they … Read more >>
Everyman 3,545
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3545.
AZED 2,206
A good puzzle for those who haven’t tackled an Azed before, with several clues that wouldn’t be out of place in a daily cryptic puzzle.
Independent on Sunday 1282/Kairos
I thought this was an excellent IoS puzzle from Kairos. Just one or two where I’m not entirely sure of my parsing. I don’t normally big up setters, because they are overweening and … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations 1138 Solvable, Surely by Ian and Steve
Two new compilers, or 2 old ones with different names? A long preamble certainly but straight clues apart from 10 answers that must be replaced – somehow – so is it solvable? It … Read more >>