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Monday Prize Crossword/Apr 14 Pleasant Monday morning entertainment from Crux, mostly quite easy although the SE forced me to use some major braincells. Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. Across 1 TETHER … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 12, 2014 A fairly run-of-the-mill puzzle this time. My favourite clues are 16a (PILATES), 29a (GREENE) and 7d (TEA CLOTH). ACROSS 1 Pointer points, showing … Read more >>
IO puzzles are usually a challenge, and this one does not disappoint. Thank you IO for stretching my brain this morning.
There are a couple of clues where IO has defeated me. I’m sure there are valid explanations in there somewhere but I’m damned if I can find them.
This puzzle was a good example of Dac’s art. Virtually all the words and phrases were well known or could be deduced from the wordplay without too much difficulty. A … Read more >>
Was expecting to breeze through this after getting several of the longer clues almost immediately, but got held up in the top left corner…
This is Augeas’ third Inquisitor puzzle, but the first one that I have blogged. Holy Ghost blogged the previous two. We had a fairly short preamble this week – Seventeen … Read more >>
My goodness I was lucky as a blogger. Yesterday I never did the Independent crossword, being away, but by all accounts it was difficult. Today’s offering from Raich was much more the sort of … Read more >>
(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.) This was done in an unusual environment: … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) This was done in an unfamiliar environment: no electricity (and that includes the Internet) … Read more >>
A nice mixture of clues from Qaos in this one, with some easy ones to get me going and others that took a bit of working out. I have quibbles about a couple … Read more >>
Today was going to be Writinghawk’s final appearance as he will be leaving the country shortly and going to a location with poor/no internet access. However, it seems that something has prevented him … Read more >>
Other people will probably disagree, but I found this a fairly fiendish Anax puzzle. The structure of the grid with all the down clues in the top-half having only their second letters (which … Read more >>
After several weeks of having to blog puzzles that had me wondering aloud whether I’d forgotten how to even solve them, this was a bit of a relief. This was my first unaided … Read more >>
Owing to a very busy week I’ve hardly had time to solve this puzzle – which I think was of above average difficulty, thanks to a high proportion of unfamiliar words – let … Read more >>