Independent 7740 – Saturday 6 August 2011 – Tyrus
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 >>
Enigmatic Variations 978: Record by Loda
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 >>
Guardian Prize Puzzle No 25,394 by Paul
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 >>
Financial Times 13,770 / Bradman
Bradman’s characteristically fair puzzle with evocative and amusing clue surfaces. I started with the bottom-right and worked my way upwards, entering somewhat unfamiliar territory in the top-left with a couple of words new … Read more >>
Guardian 25,399 / Paul
As I solved the excellent Brendan puzzle yesterday, I wished it might have been mine to blog but getting a Paul on a Friday can’t be bad, either. Some clever clues here, as … Read more >>
Independent 7,745 / Phi
I feel as though I have been put through my paces this morning, by a set of Phi’s typically ultra-sound clues. As for how the solving went, it was a puzzle of two … Read more >>
Independent 7,744/Scorpion
It was nice to have bit longer to spend on this week’s puzzle and blog. And probably just as well, given that it’s Thursday and Scorpion never gives solvers an easy ride. Such … Read more >>
Financial Times no.13,769 by HAMILTON
Though England’s cities burn, the morning crossword – like the Test Match – must go on. In any case, Leeds may be grubby, scruffy, pot-holed and rainy, but I’m proud to say it’s … Read more >>
Guardian 25,398 – Brendan
In a world gone slightly mad, it was a delight (as always) to take some refuge in this puzzle, whose theme is a well-known play and an even better-known speech from it, part … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,760 – Crux
Monday Prize Crossword/Aug 1 Maybe it’s just me (or perhaps the mood I was in whilst solving this crossword), but I thought this Crux puzzle wasn’t the easiest of Monday Prize Crosswords. Across … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,759 by Cinephile, Dogberry and Io
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 30 I offer my congratulations and best wishes to John Halpern, our very own Mudd (a.k.a. Paul, Dada and Punk — see our Setters page), … Read more >>
Guardian 25,397 / Crucible
The appearance of a Crucible puzzle in The Guardian today was flagged in the Fifteensquared comments on yesterday’s Independent puzzle from Radian. Crucible is The Guardian incarnation of Radian. Perhaps compilers could tell … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,768 by Cinephile
Another interesting and varied crossword from Cinephile. I liked 1,9 for the the construction, 3 down made me laugh, 8 down for its cleverness. No time for any more preamble as I’m about to leave … Read more >>
Independent 7743/Dac
As always a silky-smooth production from Dac. Some of the surfaces are, even by his high standards, quite excellent. Across 1 CHAP EL{i} 5 APPOSITE — (op(rev). sit) in a PE — breathtakingly … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1188: Firsts by Schadenfreude
I have to say, this was a masterful offering from Schadenfreude, an old friend of the Inquisitor, and invariably ‘firm but fair’ – this was no exception. The puzzle concerns two people … Read more >>