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Something a little bit different from Phi here, to mark New Year’s Day. This week’s puzzle has a preamble, which tells us: Seven answers are suitably modified before entry to reflect the season. … Read more >>
My first blog for Fifteenquared. This being the New Year prize puzzle I was expecting an Araucaria special, but we have a plain puzzle instead. As always with Araucaria I started slowly, but … Read more >>
A gentle, entertaining puzzle with high number of double definition clues, many that we need to “lift and separate” to read the definitions independently (27A, 5D). The bottom half of the grid makes … Read more >>
Thanks again for the swap, Mark! 😉 I found some parts of this a bit tricky, so there were several smiles and ahas, for me, when the penny did drop. There was a … Read more >>
The call goes out for a Friday sub and I stick my hand up thinking I’d get a workmanlike Phi, then Phi appears on a Thursday with an Epiphany themed doozy that gave … Read more >>
A basic 13×13 grid here with a couple of nicks in the outer edge. Clues are given in symmetrical pairs, and every clue has one of its letters moved to the perimeter. A … Read more >>
A quick-quick-slow kind of puzzle today. Plenty of easy or familiar items on the menu to binge on early, before finishing off with a smattering of sublimely tricky or unhelpfully-defined answers. Across 1 CONTEMPT … Read more >>
A tricky puzzle, since so many of the entries revolved around one clue, which for those of us working on the basis of the electronic version alone was merely described as a 17-word entry, … Read more >>
We have another situation today in which the numeration for the very long answer can’t be given due to software constraints. If you’d like to give the information on fifteensquared again it’s: (1,4,6,2,3,2,2,4,3,5,4,2,3,4,3,1,7).
A very impressive puzzle from Bonxie, where every down clue and three across clues begin with “Left”. I think there a couple of slightly problematic clues, which I’ve mentioned below, but it’s quite … Read more >>
I was rather surprised to find that this Cinephile Jumbo took me no longer than some of the ‘normal’ FT puzzles despite the greater number of clues. This was perhaps due to twigging … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword first appeared on-line on 28 December 2010 Dante has this last prize and prized puzzle in 2010 … I just wonder whether any FT subscriber would take time off from … Read more >>
Happy New Year all. A perfect way to start 2011 in my book – a well-crafted, elegantly clued Dac puzzle. I found the SW corner a little tough here and the anagram at … Read more >>
A bit of a mixed bag from Cinephile today with some very easy clues, some a little more tricky and one where I think an error has been made in the wordplay. There … Read more >>
Another year, another Gordius.. In the spirit of the season I can say that I mostly enjoyed this, but as usual I have a few niggles, and there a couple of places where … Read more >>