Financial Times 15948 Slormgorm

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Thanks to Slormgorm, perhaps more restrained here than when he sets under another pseudonym. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Pine for one tender to court daughter (8) SOFTWOOD : SOFT(gentle;tender) … Read more >>

Spam Control

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I have installed another WordPress plugin to help control spam. You shouldn’t notice any changes unless Akismet, the site’s primary spam filter, considers your comment to be spam. If it does, you will … Read more >>

Guardian 27,598 / Vulcan

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Vulcan continues to slip comfortably into the Monday slot vacated by Rufus, to provide the traditional  ‘gentle start to the week’. We have the customary medley of anagrams, charades and double and cryptic … Read more >>

Azed 2,410 – Rama’s Nag

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The instructions for this puzzle were as follows:

Clues are of two types. In each of the acrosses, the cryptic
part leads to the answer to be entered and the definition part
leads to an anagram of that answer. In each of the downs, the
definition part leads to the answer to be entered and the (cryptic)
remainder leads to an anagram of that answer. All grid entries
and anagrams thereof are in the Chambers Dictionary (2014),
except for two proper names (one biblical and one geographical).
Bracketed numbers refer throughout to grid entries. Anagrams of
entries at 15 Across and 6 Down each consist of two words.

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