Financial Times 14,465 by Magwitch
Straightforward and enjoyable Across 1 WITHDRAWAL leaving WITH (as a result) D (daughter) RAW (rough) AL (boy) 7 PIPE means of conveying PIP (signal) E (electronic) 9 SPAM junk … Read more >>
Independent 8446 / Phi
It’s Phiday again! We always look forward to blogging Phi’s Friday offerings, but unfortunately we didn’t enjoy this one as much as we had hoped. We can’t quite put a finger on the … Read more >>
Independent 8,445 / Tees
The Thursday slot is shared by a range of compilers, so you never quite know who you will be doing battle with. Today’s slot is occupied by Tees, whose work I haven’t blogged … Read more >>
Financial Times no.14,464 by Sayang
The fates – or anyway the FT – smiled on me today: I was late getting started, but the crossword was a breeze. I think this was my first encounter with Sayang, and … Read more >>
Guardian 26,099 by Paul
Relatively easy, but beautifully clued from Paul. I particularly liked 1ac, 11ac, 21ac, 27ac and 15dn. Across 1 Delivery man at the door (7) BOUNCER =”Delivery” in cricket; =”man at the door” 5 … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,455 – Crux
Monday Prize Crossword/Oct 28 Enjoyable crossword from Crux who gives us a great range of surfaces, from semi-nudity and ‘topless’ (twice) to nursery rhymes (also twice). Crux seems to have developed a love … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,454 by Mudd
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 26, 2013 A fairly easy puzzle this time, I thought. My top clues are 9A (SHOWROOM), 10A (ANKARA) and, best of all, 29A (ANCESTRY). 22D … Read more >>
Financial Times 14,463 by Cinephile
Another Wednesday treat for me to blog – witty, informative and good fun. Thank you Cinephile. S has the meaning SWEET throughout the puzzle. It took me a while to catch on (via … Read more >>
Guardian 26,098 – Qaos
Rather a strange mixture from Qaos today – some very obvious clues (e.g. 1a), but also some more complex constructions (e.g. 18a). There are a couple of places where I think the cryptic … Read more >>
Independent 8444 / Dac
It’s one of the first three weeks of the month so Dac presents the Wednesday puzzle. It gets harder every week to avoid becoming repetitive about Dac’s compiling skills, so … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1305: Take… by Nimrod
The preamble for this puzzle by Nimrod (John Henderson, editor of the Inquisitor series and prolific crossword compiler for all of the cream of the national dailies and many other publications) stated "To … Read more >>
Independent 8,443 by Rorschach
There are several clues here that proved rather difficult. Rorschach has produced a crossword that is certainly good in parts, I remain to be convinced about some of it, but that is likely … Read more >>
Financial Times 14462 Redshank
Is it me or are Tuesday FTs no longer a relaxing start to the week? But this was enjoyable, and there are some nice surfaces in the clues here, and some anagrams that provided … Read more >>
Guardian 26,097 by Brummie
November the fifth and Brummie is playing games with us…. Quite a lot of the answers are card games, found this a little tricky in places. I’m off now to set up and … Read more >>
Independent 8442 by Quixote
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I found the top half of this somewhat harder than the bottom, with 5 particularly holding me up (mainly because I … Read more >>