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Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 20, 2012 Here we have another brilliant puzzle from Cincinnus. My favourite clues are 18A (LAMA), 4D (DENOUNCE), 13D (LEGERDEMAIN) and 17D (AVENGERS). I also … Read more >>
Peter O is down to do the blog today, but since he lives in New York, he no doubt has other things on his mind this morning. So I have stepped in as … Read more >>
Sorry for the lateness of this post, I nearly forgot it is my blogging day. We have not had a TV set in the house for years, so when I saw the theme … Read more >>
As I, and also it seems several others, like, one can solve this straight, without having to concern ourselves with whatever Nina may be there. The clues are good and there is a … Read more >>
I do tend to like Kruger‘s puzzles – no exception here. A pound sign ( £ ) appears in the central barred off cell of the grid. Hmm … Corrections to single-letter misprints in … Read more >>
We found this a really enjoyable, and not too difficult, Tuesday puzzle, with a ‘hidden’ theme that really only revealed itself as we followed up the connection between 20A/18A and 2D/7A. Whilst we had … Read more >>
An easy-going FT Tuesday, abound with anagrams and reversals – a warm-up for the more difficult ones later in the week? Thanks to Gurney. A pity there wasn’t a theme built around 17across. Definitions … Read more >>
I always lament the last Sunday of October, which brings back melancholic memories of my first winter in Brrrritain. Now, in my hot humid tropical paradise, I bemoan the waste of an hour … Read more >>
Pleasing puzzle in the usual Quixote style, all accessible and clear, quite easy, I thought, solving time, 17 mins * = anagram ACROSS 1 SLEEPY lee in spy 4 RAMBLING ram b (born) … Read more >>
Moley has produced a sound enough Quiptic this morning, I think, although there were one or two bits of inelegant cluing in my opinion. And, embarrassingly for a Quiptic, there’s one where I … Read more >>
A standard Rufus with the usual dds, cds and anagrams, and I guess the surface of 7 across is the nautical reference. Thanks Rufus. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at … Read more >>
… and under us. As this grid is topped and tailed with Kate and Wills on the top and bottom, and in the middle row. All these had clues of the same kind … Read more >>
Apologies for the tardy post, and thanks to Gaufrid for the welcome prod in the right direction! Quite a tough solve, this one, I thought, though to help us there’s a nice Battle … Read more >>
This was an interesting solve. I started off very smoothly indeed, thinking this would be an “easy” week, but ground to a halt about halfway through, and eventually had to adopt a very … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning crossword solvers, I enjoyed this weeks offering tremendously, wizzed through it with no problems. Favourites this week were, 1, 3, 9, 14 and 17ac, 1, 6, 10(first in the grid) and … Read more >>