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An interesting challenge, as usual, from Harpo. There are one or two unknown or less familiar words but fairly clued and therefore gettable. The long anagrams at 1ac, 26ac and 10dn in … Read more >>
Rodriguez fills the midweek slot this week.
Too Much by Skylark Each clue contains too much: either an extra letter, which should be removed before solving, spelling instructions to solvers; or a surplus word, giving the final words of a … Read more >>
A fun puzzle – I really liked 5ac, 9ac, 21ac, 3dn, and 13dn. Thanks to Anto
Filbert has provided his latest puzzle for us this Tuesday aka theme day. I found this to be an enjoyable medium-difficulty puzzle and made steady progress throughout. I actually found the three 3-letter … Read more >>
Some tricky clues in today’s puzzle from Moo . . .
PETO provides Monday's puzzle…
The Teeser gets our week going
Mostly straightforward, as we expect from this setter, though there were a couple of clues that held me up a little. Thanks to Vulcan. A slightly unusual feature of the puzzle is that … Read more >>
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9. Old private moving around Europe working (9) OPERATIVE : O(abbrev. for “old”) + anagram of(… moving) PRIVATE containing(around) E(abbrev. for “Europe”). … Read more >>
The February edition of the monthly topically themed puzzle. Find it on the FT website to download and print or solve online, or via the smartphone app.
The puzzle is available to download or solve online here.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4035.
A couple of typos appear to have crept in to this week’s puzzle.
We got off to a slow start on this one because we put the wrong answer in for 9ac. Once we realised our error, things fell neatly into place.