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Today is Mothering Sunday, and I need a cuddle from our mam after having to solve and parse this offering from Daedalus. More importantly, I need help from you kind folk to parse … Read more >>
A few more tricky clues today, such as 12ac which if, like me, you haven’t read the novel in question needed some online assistance. The customary smooth surfaces led to a pleasant Sunday … Read more >>
An Azed Carte Blanche this week. No clue numbers given, no bars in the grid. You have to work it all out I enjoyed this where we had to do … Read more >>
A nice short preamble – additional words in all clues and many entries are not words. Interesting. The first thing that became apparent with this puzzle was the mismatches between some entry lengths … Read more >>
A pleasingly round-numbered puzzle from Klingsor today. Klingsor does crop up on Saturdays fairly regularly, though without wishing to sound over-confident, this one seemed relatively tractable for that day of the week. In … Read more >>
We found this puzzle quite tough, largely due to only getting the theme clue (14) very late. There were lots of fun clues here, anyway – thanks, Paul! Across 1. No fortune for … Read more >>
A fairly straightforward solve from Phi this week. For once the theme was so obvious, we couldn’t help but think that maybe there were more thematic entries than the obvious ones … Read more >>
A really challenging puzzle from Wanderer this Friday – remarkable diversity in the type of clues meant several pleasant moments of pulling my hair out.
A real toughie…
A very satisfying puzzle from Picaroon today, where I initially made slow progress but gradually made my way through it thanks to sound and inventive clueing. Nice one. … Read more >>
Serpent has directed his cruciverbal venom at us this Thursday morning. How many of us had the antidote to it? I did have the antidote to it, although it took it quite some … Read more >>
Straightforward fare from Dogberry
Monday Prize Crossword / Mar 13, 2017
After leaving his Everyman career, Falcon has now become one of the main Monday Prize setters for the FT.
I found this pretty easy ….
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 11, 2017
A very entertaining puzzle full of gentle humour and misdirection. Thank you Redshank.