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Don’t let your pencil get too frenzied! Make sure your X is fully within the appropriate box when you vote on Thursday. Do not make it into an hourglass and surround it with … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here. Hi all. Thanks to Kairos for today’s very enjoyable puzzle, with a bit more of a sciencey flavour than usual which I appreciated. My favourite clue … Read more >>
A tougher than usual Azed for the Bank Holiday, but no Easter theme that I could detect.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3784.
A bit of fun for a weekend morning. Solving was fun for most of the trip – plenty of gettable clues to be picked off and enough progress to provide crossing letters for … Read more >>
I realised some weeks ago that my monthly Prize blog was due to fall at the Bank Holiday weekend and, since Maskarade seems to have settled into that slot, I’ve been wondering for … Read more >>
“In WEIGHTWATCHERS’ ADVICE, two clues are normal, but their answers must be entered thematically. From the answer to every other clue a letter must be deleted wherever it appears before entry into the grid; definitions refer to the full unmutilated answer, and wordplay to the grid entry. In clue order, the omitted letters give a phrase followed by its definition. This definition should help solvers with the entry method of the two normal clues. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
Picaroon brings a week of good puzzles to a close. In a couple of weeks, it will be sixty years since C P Snow delivered his Rede Lecture ‘The … Read more >>
The usual sharp offering from Phi. He goes on producing these things week after week (to say nothing of all his other output) and the clues remain fresh and accurate.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
A good challenge from MUDD this Friday. Generally easy across the board, with just a sprinkle of some unusual words holding up a quick solve. Thanks MUDD.
Found this a little tricky, getting stuck a few times, but it all came together very neatly. Favourites were 21ac, 6dn, 15dn, 19dn, and especially 16dn. Thanks, Nutmeg
As far as we can tell, this is Windsurfer’s second published Indy puzzle. However, as far as fifteensquared is concerned, he has also compiled puzzles for S&B get-togethers in Derby in 2014 and 2106 and York in 2014. Perhaps there will be another for the Leicester S&B on 4th May? (Details on the home page)
A quickie from Grney in today’s FT
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 13, 2019
Tees has provided the Wednesday puzzle this week. I have to say that I was quite relieved to tackle a more straightforward puzzle this morning, having torn my hair out over the Easter … Read more >>