A test area for 15squared
Nestor is an irregular contributor to the Independent weekday series. He is more often seen at weekends. This was …
An enjoyable crossword, so first, thanks to Sleuth. We had almost finished doing the blog when there was a power cut and we feared we’d have to re-enter the lot. We should have known better. Our thanks to PeeDee for yet another great feature of the utility.
Enjoyed this, getting stuck several times after a quick start. Particularly liked 21ac, 25ac, and 8dn. Thanks, Paul.
Just as I thought the FT doesn’t see daylight on Easter Monday, there was a Monday Prize Crossword which only appeared at the very end of the day on the newspaper’s website. I don’t like stereotyping but this Dante puzzle was indeed full of cryptic and double definitions – no less than 8 of the latter!
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 4, 2015 I made my way well through this puzzle until I got stumped …
Not for the first time, two rogue black squares have crept into the grid and messed up the numbering. However, once this …
The usual thing: every clue has a silky-smooth surface that never compromises the parsing. I thought this was on the hard side for a Dac and it took me some while to understand one or two, particularly 23ac, which I almost gave up on, but my parsing is I think what he intended, although perhaps it is on the edge compared with Dac’s usual.
This started off seeming quite a gentle ride by Pasquale standards, but I got a bit held up on the left-hand side …
Serpent slithers into view – venomous? We’ll see. Preamble: Solvers must determine how to enter the answers to across clues, listed …
A bright sunny morning brings Nutmeg, who can be quite a tricksy setter to unravel.
Crosophile appears once a month but doesn’t have a regular slot in the week, unlike other some other compilers. His last puzzle …
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My apologies for the late arrival of this blog. The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26544
I’m usually a big fan of her Quiptics, but Hectence has given us an over-complicated one here, I fancy. The grid didn’t …