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VELIA eases us into the week… Nothing too taxing for a Monday here… which is all for the best as I feel somewhat under the weather! HEDGE FUNDS and WEB PAGES maybe a … Read more >>
Electioneering Prowess – that’s what it is all about, for the next few weeks… And the first clue/entry, 7A RECTUM, obviously sums up Cyclops’ feelings about politicians, and their choice of vocal organs. … Read more >>
My blogging colleague Quirister described last week’s puzzle as ‘occasionally a bit untidy but generally fun’. I can’t find a better description of this week’s Everyman, so it’s déjà vu all over again. … Read more >>
An anagrams special from Azed this week.
Thanks Hynos for an enjoyable puzzle. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Band is overhead overlooking motorway (4) SASH : “smash”(a shot in tennis hit above the hitter’s head, and thus … Read more >>
What a pleasure solving a Monk puzzle is. There are always some great clues and interesting wordplay to tease out. However it was quite hard. Hard to finish. I got about a dozen … Read more >>
Hello everybody. I remembered very much enjoying the last Jaques puzzle I solved, so I started this one in a good frame of mind. Of course it is an EV, so things can … Read more >>
An interesting mixture of easy and difficult clues for this week’s prize puzzle.
It’s a couple of years since I blogged an Enigmatist puzzle – always a challenge but I think his puzzles have become [even] more difficult recently [and I know I’m not the only … Read more >>
Our Friday regular compiler Phi has brought this week’s string of mid-week puzzles to an end once again. I found this to be a puzzle of medium difficulty on the Indy scale. I … Read more >>
A delightful challenge from WANDERER this Friday, which I felt was on the easier side of his offerings. Thanks WANDERER.
A slow solve and tricky to parse – I really liked some of the misdirection in the surfaces. Favourites were 12ac, 14ac, 17ac, 30ac, and 27ac. Thanks to Nutmeg
Serpent challenges us today It’s an odd looking grid with nineteen across clues and sixteen down which usually implies there is something going on in terms of a theme or … Read more >>
A typically high-quality puzzle from Alberich. I really enjoyed this solve as there was a bit of everything in here. Alberich is a very clever, but very fair setter, who uses a range … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 9, 2019