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Straightforward puzzle today from Sleuth ACROSS 1 REMARK comment RE about MARK point for merit 4 ASTERISK sign A STE[p] part of stairs RISK hazard 10 CAVALCADE procession CAVA wine … Read more >>
I thought this puzzle was great fun – lots of smiles and ‘aha’ moments along the way. Many thanks, Puck, for a very enjoyable and entertaining end to a wet week. … Read more >>
This was at the speedier end of the Beelzebub spectrum ACROSS 1 Plenty more winds limiting man’s assessment of clouds NEPHELOMETRY HE man in (PLENTY MORE)* study of clouds … Read more >>
It’s Friday, so it’s a puzzle by Phi, as you might expect. I found this one tougher than the average Phi crossword overall, despite filling in 1A and 1D instantly and thinking it … Read more >>
Nothing hugely challenging. An overdose of charades and a few too many four-letter words for my taste, but some solid clueing and some marvellously misleading definitions. Thank-you, Jason. Nice way to start a … Read more >>
I learned a couple of new (botanical) words from today’s puzzle. Fortunately, the clues were reasonably easy and, as one would expect from Pasquale, admirably sound. The grid is not one of the … Read more >>
Tees has given us a puzzle, mainly populated with well known words, although the main theme did generate one slightly obscure phrase (to me, at least) that was fairly easily deducible from the … Read more >>
An enjoyable prize crossword, neatly clued. Thanks to Crux. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Basic floor design requires a ruler (8) PLANKING : PLAN(design,blueprint) plus(requires) KING(a ruler). Answer: A basic … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 7, 2012 This puzzle has a few typically impressive Cincinnus clues but also one whose workings elude me. My favourites are 24A (YEMEN), 27A (KINESIS), … Read more >>
A very enjoyable crossword, a lot easier to write the answers than to explain why they are are correct. Crosswords from Monk usually have some clever theme worked into the grid, hidden words, pangrams etc … Read more >>
As usual a thoroughly satisfactory crossword from Dac; indeed ‘satisfactory’ is to damn with faint praise. It is of course far more than satisfactory, and as always the surfaces are smooth and shiny. … Read more >>
As usual, the definition is underlined in each clue.
Augeas’s second Inquisitor puzzle, so an appropriate title? And forgive me if I’m brief – on a week’s break for Easter, just outside Hay-on-Wye. Four items have something in common, three of … Read more >>
Dante starts the FT week, after, as Rufus, starting the Guardian week yesterday, in the same style, with double and cryptic definitions and anagrams, compactly clued. Thanks Dante. Definitions are underlined in the clues. … Read more >>
A bit of a mixed bag today we feel from Scorpion. We deduced the theme fairly early on and thought that we would have to resort to the internet to work out some … Read more >>