I always enjoy getting to solve and blog a Gozo puzzle, I hope you all enjoyed it too. Thanks Gozo.
Independent 8647 / Dac
We found this a bit tougher than your average Dac, but no less enjoyable – all the usual excellent surfaces were there, but for some reason we had difficulty getting round the misdirections. … Read more >>
Guardian 26,301 by Nutmeg
I found this tough to get into, but rewarding once I did. Favourites were 1, 7 and 8 down.
Inquisitor 1339: The Man with a Gun by Phi
Preamble: Crossing answers make 18 down appear a non-word – it must be replaced by the acronym given by the longer down answers (five words in total), while retaining real words in the … Read more >>
Guardian 26,300 – Brummie
I made pretty quick work of this: there are quite a few clues that either had giveaway definitions or made their cryptic structure rather too obvious (a common feature of Brummie’s clues). I … Read more >>
Independent 8,646 / Hob
It’s Tuesday today, with its typical pot pourri of compilers, and today it falls for me to do battle with Hob. I found solving and blogging this puzzle involved quite a lot of … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,662 GAFF
Looks like my honeymoon period of blogging is over. This was a monumental struggle which had me scrambling all over Chambers and Wikipedia.
Guardian Quiptic 763 / Pan
I’m not so sure about the ‘Qui….’ part of this puzzle but maybe that was due to the fact that I had slept longer than usual last night and perhaps my brain was … Read more >>
Independent 8,645 by Commoner
Still not back to normal for Quixote, but a rare Indy weekday appearance from Commoner.
Guardian 26,299 by Rufus
Well it’s Monday, it’s Rufus. You’ve probably got a good idea what’s coming.
Beelzebub 1,268
Well I never. Another unaided finish, though admittedly it took until Thursday and there was some very tentative guesswork involved. Not all of which I’ve 1 down-ly checked in Chambers, so it’s quite … Read more >>
AZED 2,194
A routine plain Azed this week, made a little harder if you were using the online version.
Everyman No. 3,533 (22 June)
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3533. I got the impression in the last several weeks that Everyman was ratcheting up the difficulty level a notch; butI though this one by comparison a pleasant … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1270/Hypnos
Hypnos must be getting fed up with me blogging his IoS puzzles, since this is the third in a row that has come up on my shift. Generally I enjoyed it, and this … Read more >>
Independent Saturday Prize Puzzle 8638 / Tyrus
We enjoyed this challenging puzzle from Tyrus – some very good clues and plenty of crafty misdirection. Was Tyrus anticipating the outcome in Brazil when he wrote the clue for 15ac? 4/25! Let’s … Read more >>