A good solid puzzle in a traditional style, no funny business here. Thank you Tees.
Azed 2570
It is a plain Azed puzzle that forms the basis of the blog this week I got quite a long way through the puzzle without looking in Chambers, but as … Read more >>
Independent No. 10,900 by Wiglaf (Sat 18-Sep 2021)
Highly enjoyable puzzle from Wiglaf today. I sailed into this clobbering more than half the puzzle in less than a half-hour, thoroughly enjoying some relative accessible clues. For some of these it feels … Read more >>
Guardian ‘Prize’ Crossword 28,548 / Brendan (11 September 2021)
An abundance of opportunities for me to add a link this week … … due to the many pseudonyms (or 15s or 17s) included in the grid, along with some real names in … Read more >>
Guardian 28,553 / Paul
It’s Paul rounding off a generally good week of puzzles. I found this fairly straightforward, to both solve and parse. There are some witty and ingenious clues – rather fewer of them, owing … Read more >>
Independent 10899 / Phi
Phi is in his regular Friday spot for the Independent crossword series today. This was a good puzzle to end the week. There were no words that I hadn’t come … Read more >>
Financial Times 16,893 by REDSHANK
A fun workout from REDSHANK this Friday AM
Independent 10,898 by Alchemi
A slightly tricky challenge from Alchemi today.
Guardian Cryptic 28,552 by Crucible
A fun challenge – I especially liked 15dn, and other favourites were 10ac, 13ac, and 20dn. Thanks to Crucible.
Financial Times 16,892 by STEERPIKE
A new setter…?
Enigmatic Variations No. 1503: The Proverbial Way by X-Type
Is X-Type going to lead us up the PROVERBIAL path, or take us any which WAY?…
Financial Times 16,882 by Buccaneer
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 4, 2021
Financial Times 16,891 by GOZO
I found this puzzle harder than usual. There is not much that is very obscure in here, I just took me a long time to spot everything. Thank you Gozo.
Independent 10,897 by Eccles
Eccles appears in the mid-week slot this week.
Guardian 28,551 – Vlad
I wouldn’t call this easy, exactly, but some well-constructed clues meant that I got through it quite quickly. Some political commentary raises its head, as often with this setter, with one particularly clever … Read more >>