Financial Times 13,686 / Styx
A very nice puzzle today, smart clues and not too tough except for a brief struggle with the NE part of the grid. My favourites of the day: 9A, 7D, 20D Across 1 … Read more >>
Independent 7661/Raich
The usual good puzzle from Raich. I found it a bit harder than usual, but no doubt that was because of my failure to recognise the theme, and the long answer in the … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic No. 25,315 by Chifonie
Very definitely plain sailing, and none the worse for that. Across 1. French town’s brochure revised? Good! (9) CHERBOURG Charade of CHERBOUR, an anagram (‘revised’) of ‘brochure’ + G (‘good’). 6. Make sense … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,685 / Alberich
“A game of two halves” best describes my experience today. Solved in a generally east-west direction, with the right-hand side providing early target practice while the left-hand side had me resorting more to … Read more >>
Guardian 25,314 / Shed
A very nice crossword from Shed, with some tough words / general knowledge, but all fairly clued. (I may not be able to make corrections until much later today, so apologies in advance … Read more >>
Independent 7660 by Nimrod
I sit down on the train, open up the paper and what do I find, something to strike terror into the heart of bloggers, well this blogger – it’s a Nimrod. After 30 … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,676 / Falcon
FT Monday Prize Crossword of 25 April 2011 Pretty straightforward, but the clues were concise and pleasing. 13 down was a new word for me, which I had to guess at by playing … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,675 by Mudd
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 23 The top-left quadrant of this puzzle stumped me for a while. I got 15A promptly but the rest was tough, especially as I was … Read more >>
Independent 7659 / Dac
It looks as if something has prevented RatkojaRiku from being with us today so here is an analysis of the clues. In the interest of having something posted without too much further delay … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,684 by Cinephile
A bit of a mixed bag today I thought, some good clues and some that were not so good. I wondered if this was a ‘Friday Afternoon’ crossword, compiled after a good lunch … Read more >>
Guardian 25,313 / Orlando
There’s lots of fun in this characteristically witty, elegant and well-clued puzzle from Orlando – nothing too complicated but highly entertaining and enjoyable. Many thanks, Orlando. Across 1 MAGIC LANTERN: anagram [dicky] of … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1174 – Union Activity by Phi
The title told us that we were in the weddings arena, though the proximity of the forthcoming royal nuptials seemed to be less of a help than I expected. My first solution was … Read more >>
Financial Times 13683 Jason
This was quite relaxingly enjoyable. Thanks Jason. Across 1 We men are at the top of church’s structure (12) STEEPLEJACKS: JACKS(plural of male name for men) +(at) STEEPLE(the top of church’s structure literally). Defn: … Read more >>
Independent 7,658/Phi
Phi has been shifted around the schedule a couple of times recently, although I suspect we find him on Tuesday this week not because of the Bank Holiday, but because this was a … Read more >>
Guardian 25312 – Araucaria
What a superbly entertaining puzzle from The Master today with a side-theme presented with great humour and fun. ACROSS 7 TROUSERS T (time) ROUSERS (alarm clocks) worn by the dominant partner in a … Read more >>