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A welcome return for The Don. There’s nothing too difficult here, except that 20dn was a new word for me (though easily guessable), and the phrase at 10dn may be unfamiliar to some, … Read more >>
There was a time when Monk’s crosswords were the ones I anticipated most eagerly of all. Which suggests that I am lukewarm about this one: not the case; it was easier than his … Read more >>
An enjoyable, not too taxing puzzle and some nice surfaces. Thanks Armonie. Definitions are underlined in the clues. P.S. Two of the picture sets have a hidden connection within each respective set, which … Read more >>
What a beautiful morning. The last time I blogged a Puck, it was such a pleasure as his puzzle was “inspired” by a term I coined, Puck the Magic Dragon. This time round, … Read more >>
This is a pseudonym I do not recall seeing in the Indy before. It’s an anagram of Arachne so I guess it’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that it has some connection … Read more >>
A gentle outing, even by the standards of Rufus, despite a couple of definitions that were new to me.
Several of the clues required some thought to work out the wordplay; in all this Quiptic took me longer to solve than today’s Rufus.
Who would have thought in 1986 that the pudgy little chap with the fearsome wit could take on the responsibilities of the sarcastic classes and make it his own. In a way it … Read more >>
Never a week goes by without this setter coming up with some extraordinary stuff – like 1ac ACROSS 1 Kitchen wizard, say, to try something hard SPELL BAKER tichy 10 … Read more >>
Wow! Hypnos three weeks in a row. Let’s hope the IOS does not follow a four-setters cycle since the four bloggers do … then we will end up blogging the same setter. Nothing … Read more >>
I found this a little harder than usual for an Azed, although on reflection it is just the unfamiliarity of many of the words that creates the difficulty. As always, there are no … Read more >>
Week in, week out, Everyman produces an enjoyable and accessible Sunday crossword. Here’s another one. cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator Across 1 Polish in … Read more >>
IThis puzzle was published on the first weekend of the new Football League season in England. A new team in League 2 was AFC Wimbledon. This was the club that was formed when … Read more >>
A fairly small grid this week, 11 × 11, and consequently fewer clues than normal as well. Across answers were to be entered with a letter missing, subsidiary indications being to the entered … Read more >>
This was the hardest prize puzzle that I can remember for quite some time, made even harder by the schoolboy blunder at 20 down. I see that the web version now has a … Read more >>