Financial Times 13,375 – Dante
Monday Prize Crossword on 3 May 2010 Once again, the prolific Dante entertained and teased us with his brand of smooth surfaces and slick construction. ACROSS 1 SICKLE cd Standard is used as … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,374 by Cinephile
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 1 Much of this puzzle is fairly pedestrian but I would single out 27A and 4D as especially good clues. Across 1. OUTWEIGH – reversed … Read more >>
Independent 7354 by Dac
Usual good puzzle from Dac, this one I found extremely easy, solving time, 12 mins. * = anagram ACROSS 1 SPARTA SPAR(fight) TA(volunteers) City in ancient Greece 8 FLETCHER Double definition. … Read more >>
Guardian 25008 / Arachne
Some very good clues in this puzzle, (e.g. 7d, 10d) and a few which I think are bit weak. I’m not sure about how to parse 15a and 14d, I’m afraid. Across 1. … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,383 / Cinephile
A fairly typical Cinephile though overall perhaps slightly easier than some (at least for me). Nothing particularly held me up (studying chemistry at school helped with 19ac) but 26,27,23,24 was the last to … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1124: Legacy by Samuel
As Hihoba is on holiday for a few weeks, I’m blogging this one, and he’ll do mine later in May. A frustratingly slow start on this one … … but with about … Read more >>
Independent 7,353 by Radian
It feels like a while since I tackled, let alone blogged, a Radian. This was characteristically inventive and good fun. For me the top half seemed toughest, though spotting the Nina in the … Read more >>
Guardian 25,007 / Rover
Uncle Yap is away enjoying himself so I have the opportunity to cover a Guardian puzzle at leisure, rather than rushing at the last minute when someone fails to turn up. Unfortunately there … Read more >>
Financial Times 13,382 / Hamilton
Some clever ideas from this setter, but also several clues that I had issues with (or, perhaps, that I misunderstood). Across 1 GOOD-FOR-NOTHING GOOD (honesty) FOR NOTHING (to no avail). How is “honesty” a definition … Read more >>
Independent 7352 / Punk
NealH has business commitments today so I agreed to stand in for him, thinking that it would make a change to cover an Indy. An interesting approach today, with all the down answers … Read more >>
Guardian 25,006 / Rufus
Rufus on Monday – All’s right with the world! – as Browning didn’t say. The familiar start to the week, after two Rufusless Mondays in the last four. I said that the last … Read more >>
Azed 1979/amnesia
I completely forgot about this blog. Gaufrid kindly reminded me yesterday so I promptly forgot again. And then woke up this morning with something niggling my memory. That was about an hour and … Read more >>
Private Eye/Cyclops 416 – Detente candidate
Pack away your soapbox now. Take down your “Sod the others – Vote for Us” posters. It’s all over for now. The people have spoken and they said “Errr”. Anyway, I don’t understand … Read more >>
Everyman 3318
Some lovely surfaces and subtleties this week, and a clue type in 12/13 ac which I’m not sure I’ve seen in Everyman before (which is by no means to say that it hasn’t … Read more >>
Beelzebub 1,054 (02/05/10)
Well I never, two weeks running with a correctly-filled grid and not so much as a look at Chambers. This week did feel a lot tougher than last week though, and by the … Read more >>