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Straightforward and well defined Across 1 GRANDMASTER (top chess player) grand (magnificent) master (teacher) 7 ORB (round object) hidden in [convey]OR B[elt] 9 METRO (subway) T (time) in (ROME)* … Read more >>
Another Phi-day to end the week! First of all though – Many thanks to PeeDee and Eileen who stood in for us while we were on holiday! We thought there may be a … Read more >>
As long as you know the references, I think this is at the easier end of Araucaria’s output.
Initally posted at 16:45 this blog started out as a very quick and basic one as Gaufrid has asked me to help in the apparent absence of the scheduled blogger. Now that I’ve got … Read more >>
I won’t say too much about this morning’s offering from Redshank, because a combination of software, hardware and newsagent failings have already made me very late. So I’ll only say that I thought … Read more >>
‘Mixed bag’ is a term that has been applied more than once to Gordius puzzles, by me and others – and here’s another: some good clues but, as so often, I have quibbles … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Nov 26 Mostly straightforward, but as always with a Dante puzzle there were these final bits that held me up. I think the end-product is right, but I need some help … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 24, 2012 The last Falcon I blogged was a considerably difficult puzzle. This one I found very easy and I know that some others did … Read more >>
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Consistently good and quite hard too, thank you Dogberry. The first solution I entered contained Z and very soon after found X and Y, so I was then led astray by trying to force the … Read more >>
I took a while to get started on this, but one of my earlier answers was 11, which led me to 22 and 4,26, after which the rest followed without too much difficulty. … Read more >>
Dac continues to produce high quality puzzles. As ever, there were many well crafted clues with excellent misdirection. I particularly liked the use of Ain’t Misbehavin‘ in 15 across. Having … Read more >>
Although Jambazi has appeared in the Independent daily puzzle series, this is his first Inquisitor puzzle. The preamble was fairly short and stated "Taken in order, the initial letters of superfluous words in … Read more >>
First of all, many thanks to all those who have offered to donate towards the hosting costs etc. I will let you know about the preferred method of payment in a day or two. It will probably be a case of my sending you a request via PayPal (you will not need a PayPal account in order to send your donation).
I have now heard that the transfer of the site to the new hosting company will start at around 9pm on Sunday (9th Dec.) so could I please ask that you stop adding any comments from 8pm onwards. The site will be closed just before the transfer commences but unfortunately I cannot give you a time when it will reopen since this depends on the performance of the current hosting company’s server which has been notoriously poor at times recently.
A crossword with a theme that will not be approved of by everyone, since 8/12 should in some people’ s views be written out of history, certainly not given unwarranted publicity. Not perhaps … Read more >>