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An educational (for me) solve from the Ace of Hearts this week…will OLIVER leave us asking for more?!… The preamble states that: “In OLIVER, four clues are normal and their answers are associated … Read more >>
I found this entertaining but tricky, a pleasure rather than a slog. The solutions are not hard to understand, just difficult to spot. Exactly how it should be I think. Thank you Paul. … Read more >>
Phi gives us a good Friday puzzle that seems to me to be neither too easy or too difficult There was one new word for me today. I haven’t come … Read more >>
80% straightforward 20%obscure , is how I would describe today’s FT solve. Thanks Bradman, for the treat.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27979. Strangely enough, I often find Paul’s weekday Guardian puzzles harder that his Prizes, and this was no exception. There was plenty of cunning misdirection, and on … Read more >>
It’s Boatman providing the challenge today, with a theme that must surely be unmissable. Today, it was not so much a case of spotting the theme as chasing down some knotty parsing but … Read more >>
A gentle but fun offering from Artexlen I completed this puzzle in two passes, with the two long answers at the top of the bottom being the key to solving the rest of … Read more >>
Quite a struggle for me today, and there are various answers that I don’t really understand. Many of the clues are very nice, but it looks to me that they call on knowledge … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 2, 2019 I finished this puzzle in what may be my record time for a Goliath. And I found it very entertaining. First I was … Read more >>
A fair challenge from Aardark today. Thank you. Realising that there was a pangram in the offing helped to narrow down some of the possibilities. This helped to balance out the grid being … Read more >>
A slow, tough, and enjoyable puzzle – favourites were 11ac, 26ac, 2dn, 19dn, and 20dn. Thanks to Picaroon.
Another fun puzzle to start the day – we always know that we will have some great wordplay in an Eccles puzzle. Eccles seems to be have been given a regular Wednesday slot … Read more >>
Duck Egg by Kruger Clues are given in alphabetical order of their answers which must be entered where they will fit. Wordplay in each clue yields an extra letter that is not … Read more >>
Typical Hamilton offering with a few iffy-looking constructs but a lot of fun.
This was one of those puzzles where I was staring at a nearly empty grid for a long time, and then everything, or almost everything, fell into place quite quickly. Getting the long … Read more >>