Independent 7528/Phi
Phi on a Wednesday indeed. Something is afoot. No doubt Eimi or someone will amuse us on Friday with a theme that we can’t predict. And what Dac is doing I can’t think, … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1153 – Cross Purposes by Nutmeg (Saturday 20 November)
The preamble told us that clashes in the grid must be resolved (producing some non-words in the process) to display the name of a man of note for whom 2010 is an anniversary, … Read more >>
Independent 7527 by Anax
Nestor, Nimrod now Anax. This crossword is a tribute to … … a recently deceased Agony Aunt and writer/broadcaster. Only the one two I can’t really see today! Across 1,26 Farewell – FELL about … Read more >>
Guardian 25,181 Paul for Autumnal Treat
I might have guessed that on the day of the first Meet The Guardian Team that the featured setter would have his puzzle published. Well, I have travelled some 7,000 miles to a … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,556 / Gurney
A new setter, or a new pseudonym for an established setter who is new to the FT? I’m not sure, although there is something vaguely familiar about the style–reminiscent of both Armonie (the … Read more >>
Guardian 25,180 / Brendan
Sorry for a very rushed post today – there’s part of 22 across that I can’t see, I’m afraid. This was an excellent puzzle from Brendan – my favourites here in particular are … Read more >>
Guardian Quiptic 576/Hectence
A pleasing puzzle from Hectence, with a couple of very clever clues as well as some tricky ones. Well, I found them tricky, but that could be because I stayed up far too … Read more >>
Independent 7526 by Hypnos
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism This was a fairly easy Monday morning puzzle with a NINA around the perimeter. I guessed from the mention of FC it was something … Read more >>
Independent on Sunday 1,084 by Quixote
This is my first attempt at blogging a Sunday Quixote (well, technically it’s my second due to my mixing up the dates, but that’s another story), so I hope I can do it … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1,083 (21/11/10)
A good week – not too hard or too easy, though the SW corner put up a fight for me. Highlights were learning that there is an anagram of GYMNAST, and that there … Read more >>
Azed 2008: Sunday 21 November
A mostly straightforward Azed, with a few that held me up for a while and needed to be checked in Chambers (like the definition of ‘office’ in 19a). I didn’t get the wordplay … Read more >>
Everyman No. 3347 (21st November)
Lorraine: Hi fellow solvers, nothing too difficult this week, but had to look up 17d after managing to work out the answer but did not know it was the capital of Estonia. First … Read more >>
Guardian 25,173 (Sat 20 Nov)/Bonxie – Cobblers
Solving time: 14 mins This may have been Bonxie’s first prize puzzle in the Guardian, in which case my congratulations to the setter. There were some nice ideas here but on close analysis … Read more >>
Independent 7519 (Sat 20-Nov) Anax
A Leo Tolstoy themed puzzle because 20-Nov-2010 was exactly 100 years since the great man’s death. I started the puzzle early on the day and didn’t know this till listening to the Today … Read more >>
Enigmatic Variations No. 941 – The Sign of Four by Salamanca
A fellow EV blogger recently mused on the ‘blogger’s nightmare’ of being allocated a puzzle he/she can’t get to the bottom of. Well, here’s an example (unless the penny drops some time between writing … Read more >>