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This puzzle has not yet appeared on the FT website. I will check periodically throughout the day, and will post a blog as soon as is practical, as I need to fit it … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) This wasn’t too difficult after getting … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) This wasn’t too difficult after getting the gateway clue (1,12). Thanks to Crucible. Definitions … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Jul 18, 2016
Armonie (aka Chifonie at another place) is for many solvers the ideal person to take the Monday (or Tuesday) slot.
No devious constructions, with everything far off the borders of Crosswordland.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 16, 2016
I enjoyed this very much. In the Goldilocks zone for me: neither too easy nor hard; inventive but not flashy; general knowledge but not a quiz; generally just right for a morning coffee solve. Thanks Sleuth.
We found this a little trickier than the average Dac, but no less enjoyable. As usual, excellent clues and great surfaces. Initialy we felt that the parsing of 5d was a bit ‘loose’ … Read more >>
The puzzle my be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26947.
Preamble: One letter must be omitted, wherever it occurs, from the answer to each clue before entry in the grid; wordplay and letter counts refer to the mutilated forms entered. In clue order, … Read more >>
It’s about a year since I blogged a Philistine puzzle and so I was happy to see his name this morning. There’s quite a variety of clue types, from the familiarly straightforward [5, … Read more >>
It is Tuesday today and so probably time for a themed puzzle. A first glance at the clues shows that 1D is to provide the gateway clue to a theme running through the … Read more >>
Rather harder than the normal Tuesday offering, I thought, and including a quite brilliant long anagram.
Apologies all – boring real world things have kept me from blogging this puzzle so far. This post will be updated soon.
Edit: blog has now been posted. Not too sure about 5ac or 23ac. Favourites 13ac and 18ac.
Knut has left me feeling like singing the blues today…
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) A quick solve, especially suitable for … Read more >>