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I really enjoyed this offering from Hamilton, even though it wasn’t the tightest or most tidily-clued puzzle I’ve ever seen (it had …
When we saw that it is Punk today, we knew we were in for an enjoyable challenge – and we weren’t disappointed. We …
Monday Prize Crossword/Dec 2 Solvers often say that Dante’s crosswords are full of cryptic and double definitions. Well, here is a clear …
This was one of those puzzles where I got almost nothing on my first pass through, but then everything suddenly started falling …
Once again, Dac is responsible for the Wednesday cruciverbal challenge this week. I found this an easier-than-average Dac solve, and made steady …
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 30, 2013 It falls to me to blog John Graham’s final puzzle. And what …
After the horrors of 1309, (still unfinished at the time of writing) we were hoping for something a little more simple this …
Apart from a couple of tricky ones, quite a straightforward puzzle to solve and parse. Thanks to Sayang. Definitions are underlined in …
Quixote’s harder brother, struggled a bit with this to be honest, some rare words and some of the wordplay has me less …
Tuesday’s Independent puzzles tend to be more difficult than most other days. I felt that Scorpion’s puzzle today was a good Tuesday …
Apart from the overly-creative use of abbreviations this was a very enjoyable puzzle. Most of the definitions given are from Chambers 12th …
My first time blogging a puzzle from eXternal. Tricky in places is the executive summary here, I think. Some inventive cluing; just …
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26126. I do not think I am giving anything away in awarding a title to the puzzle, since ‘sense’ is plastered all over the clues.
This one took me longer than most recent Eye puzzles, but in retrospect it doesn’t look that much harder than usual. Despite a …
Beelzebub was excellent company on the slow train back from Sheffield to London last Sunday. Not having acccess to the usual aids, …