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With only three entries during my first, very quick, pass through the clues I thought I might struggle with this one but …
This was a plain Azed puzzle with everything you would expect in such a puzzle There is one clue …
A middle-difficulty puzzle from Monk, clues are absolutely watertight as usual. Thanks Monk for another top-quality puzzle.
Quixote has given us a puzzle today with some good anagrams. I don’t think is the best puzzle that …
There was a fairly lengthy preamble to this weeks puzzle by Ifor. It stated "six clues whose answers share a general definition …
Knut made his debut only the other day. Now he appears again, and much of this continues the good start he made. There is a lot I don’t understand; my temptation is to say that some of the clues are a bit weak or unsound, but I don’t dare to because it’s far more likely that I’m missing things.
It’s a very strange grid — perfectly OK and no solecisms with the checking. Was this, together with the large number of clues, done in order to fit in some theme? If it was then I can’t see it.
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Whilst solving this one I felt that some of the definitions and/or parts of wordplay were a bit of a stretch but this …
I liked this grid with words all the way round the border, it is a long while since I saw one of these. Good to have the minimum of black space on the grid, value for money!
There are a couple of clues where I don’t quite get the wording, even though I’m sure I have the correct answer. Thanks to Hypnos for an enjoyable Sunday solve.
An alphabetical jigsaw – with rhyming couplets, no less! – to celebrate what would have been Araucaria’s 94th birthday on Monday of this week.
A good puzzle for tyros but not enough grey cell exercise for this solver as it required only one pass through the …
A good work out from Crosophile today. This puzzle was one for the horticulturalists with its homage to GARDENERS …
I was half expecting to see Dante today with his customary double/cryptic definitions and anagrams but instead we have Crux with much …
What new is there to say about Dac? Every clue tells a little story. I have misgivings about ‘provided’ as an anagram indicator in 4dn, and I suspect that there might be a typo in 12dn, since my suggestion is so simple that I can’t see why Dac didn’t do it that way (although now that I look more closely he may be right all along, the two words necessitating a verb without s; not sure about this — perhaps someone who knows about these things could drop in and tell us); but a small price to pay for a day of Dac.
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An enjoyable puzzle that I thought had an ‘old fashioned’ feel to it (not a criticism, just an observation). Thanks Hamilton.