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Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 29, 2020 For Leap Day, we get a special puzzle from Gozo. It must have taken him some struggle to fit this together and have … Read more >>
A great puzzle! Not hard by Io’s standards, but that certainly doesn’t make a puzzle easy… Thank you Io. There are various references to tea and tea making in here, but I don’t … Read more >>
An elegant, but not iverly challenging, puzzle from Nutmeg in today’s Guardian.
Well I suppose it is Tuesday [don’t even know what day it is, as Rabbit Dave reminds me], so we must expect something difficult [On Wednesday? Not in recent times, although things may … Read more >>
I seem to recall that Hedge-sparrow’s other Inquisitor puzzle had quite a lot going on. Preamble: The outer cells contain a phrase (nine words) from a speech made by the person whose … Read more >>
Amazingly it’s almost two years since we last blogged a Radian puzzle, so we really looked forward to an interesting challenge today. There certainly were some challenging clues, but also some straightforward ones … Read more >>
Thanks Moo for the (debut?) puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Woman in Congress almost completely mad (6) BONKER : “bonkers”(completely mad/insane) minus its last letter(almost …). Defn: Woman (or … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28077. A quick solve here, with what seemed more envelopes than I could shake a stick at, and basic clue types throughout. I do not have the … Read more >>
Pan always provides ‘beginners and those in a hurry’ with a well-constructed and entertaining Quiptic. The NW corner took a bit of teasing out, but the whole puzzle fell out nicely in the … Read more >>
Vulcan settles into the Monday slot again. We have the usual Monday medley of anagrams and double and cryptic [some less so than others] definitions. I quite liked 9 and 24 across and … Read more >>
Oh, good, another Tees puzzle in my blog schedule. Always an enjoyable challenge. Some of these took a bit of working out: there are some slightly obscure definitions, such as 18d and the … Read more >>
Enjoyable puzzle this morning.
I began complacently, expecting the gentle puzzle the Independent usually provides for us on Sunday and got a rude awakening! Once I got over the shock I enjoyed the challenge. Thank you Filbert. … Read more >>
My apologies for the formatting of this blog, but the excellent utility that I (and many other bloggers) use to write the blogs does not appear to recognise this week’s puzzle. The puzzle … Read more >>
One of Everyman’s better crosswords this weekend, at least in my opinion. As we’ve come to expect, we have a related pair of longish answers (the with / without of 3d / 11d), … Read more >>