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A crossword to ease one into the Saturday Prize Puzzle (and back into Crosswordland for me) from a setter who usually sets the Quiptic. Thanks to Nutmeg. (There are quite a number of proper names in … Read more >>
Highly recommended Across 1 START-UP establishing new business STAR (celeb) PUT< (set about) 5 GRENADE weapon (DANGER)* E[xplode] 9 RACER fast car ACE (great performer) in RR (posh car) … Read more >>
Terrific puzzle from the prince of the fallen angels Across 1 Endless bad beer, not weak for local soak SIPE SWIPER bad beer minus W (weak) and last letter … Read more >>
I can’t remember the last time a Thursday FT gave me so much trouble. I had a tremendous tussle with this excellent offering from Alberich, with the NW corner in particular putting up … Read more >>
As it is a Thursday, we were expecting a challenge. However, we found this to be less tricky than your average Thursday indy puzzle. We did need to resort to an electronic search … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26057.
Monday Prize Crossword/Sep 9 Another fairly typical (and enjoyable) crossword from the Shropshire Lad – did I say Lad? 🙂 One can find it here. Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 7, 2013 I found this trickier than the typical Cincinnus puzzle with its somewhat obscure words (MATCHLOCKS and CURASSOW for example). My top clues are … Read more >>
Very entertaining and a good level of difficulty, neither too easy nor too hard, just right. There are lots of numbers in the clues and a nice mix, some were references to other clues … Read more >>
I was rather disappointed yesterday to miss blogging Puck’s lovely offering by one day and so was doubly delighted to see Philistine’s name on today’s puzzle. To say that I was not disappointed … Read more >>
I was expecting to see Dac occupying his regular Wednesday slot this morning, and there he was with his latest offering. I found this a harder-than-average Dac. Despite having solved a handful of … Read more >>
Two blogs in a row from me, in return for two from Duncan in June to accommodate our respective holidays. Another tricky one this week, Nudd having come up with another novel way … Read more >>
Good variety of devices Across 9 RATEPAYER RATE (grade) PLAYER (musician) minus L (beginner) 10 CHESS (might end with mate) hidden in[narcoti]C HE’S S[ynthesized] 11 GROUNDS dd 12 PATTERN … Read more >>
This took three sittings, even after guessing at the theme from the wordplay of 10ac early in my second attempt. 5ac, 16dn and 21dn were unfamiliar but gettable in the end. Favourites 11ac … Read more >>
Alchemi seems to be a ‘once a month’ contributor to Independent Daily crosswords at the moment. I really enjoyed this as a challenge to identify all the historical leaders clued … Read more >>