A test area for 15squared
Admin 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.
Serpent slithers into view – venomous? We’ll see. Preamble: Solvers must determine how to enter the answers to across clues, listed …
I thought I was going to be in for another early finish when the NW, followed by the SW, quadrants went in …
Given that this puzzle was published on Easter Sunday I was expecting an Azed special, so I was slightly surprised to see …
A real treat to solve and to blog. Thank you Maskarade.
There was one entry I haven’t come across before, but otherwise everything else covered reasonably common words or phrases. …
A very nice Radian puzzle of I think a nice level of difficulty. I say ‘I think’ because I only have an impression, my actual time not meaning much. At the moment I have a strange pain in my right thumb when I try to write, which forces me to write left-handed, which is wonderful, like being a small child again, but incredibly slow, and when I have to write the letters down to get an anagram it takes ages.
I am sure that some of you will have been expecting to see Eileen here today but unfortunately she has broken her …
Today we learned that an indris is a long-tailed lemur from Madagascar. It was a fun and straightforward crossword, with some neat clues and references to a couple of heroes. Thanks, Mr B.
Another super puzzle from Gozo, interesting all the way through. Thank you Gozo.
A gentle Tuesday morning
The preamble told us that in 11 clues the wordplay produces a letter surplus to the solution. In order, these 11 letters …
Every Friday we have the same thing, a very satisfactory and pleasant crossword from Phi, with few if any points of controversy. Initially, when I saw the answer ‘raindrop’ I thought Phi was balancing out all those rock music Ninas we so often have, by having nicknames of pieces of music, possibly just by Chopin, but either he is, and I am ignorant, or this was a false lead.
As usual with Phi for some reason, I was slow to start but then made steady progress.
We had a couple of quibbles (which we shall probably find are down to us missing the point rather than any deficiency in the crossword) but overall we enjoyed this.