The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3561.
Beelzebub 1,296
Gosh, quite a tough week for me. Browsing the answers it’s not hard to see why. There’s a lot of unfamiliar stuff …
Month: January 2015
Independent on Sunday 1298/Daedalus
I think we have a debut puzzle here from Daedalus. Unless he is Logodaedalus in disguise. Unlike Daedelus’ son in Greek legend, …
AZED 2,222
I solved this rather quickly (for me) and didn’t find myself abusing Chambers. A relatively healthy number of &lits but I struggled to understand the definition of DAFT until an email friend helped me out of my misery.
Enigmatic Variations 1154 Crackers by Charismatix
The pre Christmas EV is a joke themed puzzle from a new setter (or was it a collaboration?). Can the jokes be …
Guardian prize 26,459 / Puck
What a treat to get a Puck puzzle for my first Prize blog of the new year! I solved and blogged this …
Independent 8805 (Sat 3rd January 2015) Tyrus
As is usual from Tyrus this was a pretty hard puzzle. Maybe not as hard as 8776 back in November which …
Inquisitor Review of 2014 – The Results
From John Henderson (Nimrod et al) … I’ll get me ’at Inquisitor solvers, it seems, are a perverse bunch. For the second …
Independent 8,810 by Phi
Phi’s crosswords are almost like Dac’s: there is really very little to say, because all the clues are straightforward and have a nice surface. One can talk about the Nina, but in Phi’s case either — and this is quite often — he doesn’t have one, or it hardly cries out to me and I lazily prefer to let others find it.
Definitions underlined.
Financial Times 14,824 by BRADMAN
This serving from the Don can be aptly likened to being a Jekyll-and-Hyde type of grid – polarized between some very easy clues and some true brain-busters.
Guardian 26,464 by Brummie
Really enjoyed this…
Financial Times no.14,823 by Gozo
Well, this wasn’t much fun. I’m prepared to consider the possibility that my brain has been stultified by mince pies and sherry but in any case I found this a slog.
Guardian 26,463 – Pasquale
A tough challenge from Pasquale, with quite a few names in the answers, which with the need for some “general knowledge” and …
Independent 8809 – Raich
It’s over a year since we were last treated to a Raich puzzle to blog and although this was a very enjoyable …
Financial Times 14,815 – Mudd
Monday Prize Crossword/Dec 29 The last prize puzzle of 2014 and a very enjoyable one it was. Immaculately clued by a setter who …