Very nice – I particularly liked 19ac and 24ac…
Independent 9199 / Phi
Phi on Friday as usual The top half of the grid has a lot of wordplay or entry references to parts of the body, ailments and cures but the bottom … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,209 by BRADMAN
Bradman gives us a very easy challenge today. Very straightforward cluing with an unusual number of anagrams I thought. Good fodder for solvers starting on the FT.
Independent 9,198 by Klingsor
This is quite extraordinary: if you ignore the Saturday Prize Puzzles you have to go back to last August before you find a Klingsor that hasn’t been blogged by me. He must be suspecting some collusion amongst the people who organise these things, and must be crying out for someone else. So far as I’m concerned, however, it’s fine: I’d happily blog a Klingsor every time, with a few of the others thrown in for good measure. He always gets it just right — hard enough but he always loses gracefully, after presenting us with some very nice clues.
Definitions underlined. I have settled on maroon for them in my past few blogs as this seems best, but if anyone thinks otherwise then please do say so.
Financial Times 15,208 by WANDERER
A lovely way to start a Thursday
Guardian 26,852 – Otterden
I don’t I’m ever going to be a fan of Otterden’s puzzles, so I’ll be brief. A few very easy anagrams to get us started, a nice couple of the subtractive anagrams that … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,199 – Dante
Monday Prize Crossword / Mar 28, 2016
Dante and so no surprises at the beginning of another FT week.
Financial Times 15,198 by Alberich
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 26. 2016
Financial Times 15,207 by GOZO
A super puzzle from Gozo that I did not find easy. Thank you Gozo.
Guardian 26,851 / Vlad
I got off to a flying start with most of the top half going in quite quickly and thought that this one was going to be easy by Vlad’s standards. However I was … Read more >>
Independent 9197 / Dac
What can we say? It’s the beginning of the month so it’s Dac again with another of his excellent puzzles with their trade-mark great surfaces. We found this fairly straightforward. We had not … Read more >>
Inquisitor 1431: Life After Death? by Nimrod
Preamble: Other than those already barred off, there are to be no unchecked letters or further bars in the (nonsymmetrical) final grid. For this to happen, solvers must (i) effect six 90º single … Read more >>
Financial Times 15,206 by JASON
I need help parsing two clues here…
Independent 9,196 / Alchemi
You never quite know who you will have to cross cruciverbal swords with on a Tuesday, as the work of numerous compilers is featured on that day of the week. Today’s themed puzzled … Read more >>
Guardian Cryptic 26,850 by Nutmeg
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26850.