Financial Times 14,769 – Dante

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Monday Prize Crossword/Nov 3

After last week’s tour de force by Gaff, back to normal. Normal? I thought this puzzle was clearly at “the easier end of Dante’s spectrum”, that is, if there is such a thing. Others may disagree but I breezed through this at a, for me, unusually high speed.

 

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Financial Times 14,777 by CHALMIE

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An excellent puzzle, really good fun to solve.  I found this a good level of difficulty too, it was a satisfying solve without becoming a “struggle to the death” like the Wednesday slot can sometimes be.  Thanks Chalmie!

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Site Maintenance

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Edit (0730 13/11/14): The site should now be back to normal. Sorry for any inconvenience to users of a mobile device. In an attempt to track down the cause of excess CPU usage … Read more >>

General Discussion & Site Feedback

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A software update this afternoon has caused an elderly WordPress plug-in to malfunction, resulting in an error which created display abnormalities. This plug-in generated the ‘paged comments’ in the above two posts. To avoid the error I … Read more >>

Guardian 26,413 – Rufus

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I found this very much on the easy side, even by Rufus’s standards, with many clues being immediate write-ins, and no serious hold-ups. Thanks to the setter. Across 1. CLASSIC Form gets 99 … Read more >>

Independent 8759/Kairos

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This setter has produced some cracking puzzles recently, and they seem to crop up on my watch, which is no hardship at all.  Another well-crafted, accessible crossword in the Monday slot, which until … Read more >>