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Nutmeg always sets an enjoyable puzzle, but like most of her previous puzzles this one is, peerhaps, a liitle too difficult for a Quiptic. Most of the definitions given are from Chambers 12th … Read more >>
An even more Rufusian Rufus than usual, if such a thing is possible, with, by my count, 7 cryptic definitions, 8 double definitions and 9 straight anagrams. A few nice moments along the … Read more >>
Another Bank Holiday and it’s not raining, cold wind again today. As expected it’s Quixote in his every other week slot, relatively easy I felt with more cryptic defs than I would normally … Read more >>
An entertaining puzzle from Cyclops that brightened up a dull Thursday morning commute … … stuck in traffic on the M25 (it never stays stationary quite long enough for a proper snooze). There … Read more >>
This seemed a very tough week for me, though on blogging I’m not sure why, as everything seems to make sense. I suspect it was a combination of some tough vocabulary plus a … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning to you all. Yet another fine crossword from Everyman, some wonderful clues this week I feel. Not happy with 17ac, as not using punctuation always throws me. I know it is … Read more >>
This was just about the difficulty, perhaps a bit more, for an easygoing Sunday cryptic. Thanks to Poins. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links to … Read more >>
Usually when I blog an Azed puzzle everything is straightforward enough — do the puzzle, do the blog by Monday evening and schedule it for appearance the following Sunday. This one was different: … Read more >>
Always a pleasure to tackle a Monk puzzle, but I had particular trouble finishing the last few in this puzzle … … especially in the top left corner. 1A and the 1D linked … Read more >>
Not long after Araucaria’s Wagner / Verdi themed bank holiday special, we have a high quality Wagner / Poulenc themed puzzle from Crucible, timed close to the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth, which … Read more >>
Little did I realise when I wrote my last fifteensquared blog that I would be blogging another Rustic puzzle this month as well … for all the wrong reasons. Sadly, James Leonard, Rustic … Read more >>
A really tricky puzzle today Across 1 GINGER beer GIN (drink) GERM (beginning) minus M (maiden) 4 BRACED prepared BRA (support) CE (church) [fun]D 8 HAMMOCK to lie in … Read more >>
We found this a fairly straightforward, but very enjoyable Phiday offering, with the expected smooth surfaces and some crafty misdirections. We hadn’t come across the French phrase at 24ac before but it was … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords/cryptic/25956.
It is a long time since I last crossed swords with Tyrus as a blogger; indeed, my only previous encounter with him was back in January 2011, with a controversial puzzle themed around … Read more >>