Azed – Copy
A carte blanche puzzle for us this week. Sometimes Carte Blanche puzzles require a lot of cold solving before the grid starts …
Azed
Azed No. 2,515 ‘Cherchez la Femme’
Special instruction here, but the puzzle is not very far removed from a standard cryptic. Thank you Azed. As is often the …
Azed No. 2,514 Plain
One of Azed’s easier puzzles. By Azed standards, this was quite straightforward. I judge difficulty of barred crosswords by how far I …
Azed 2513
Quite a tricky one this week I thought, with a lot of unfamiliar words in both answers and wordplay. Everything worked out …
Azed No. 2,512 Plain – Competition Puzzle
Another helping of interesting words and carefully constructed clues. Thank you Azed. I will be away on a short cycling tour over …
Azed No. 2,511 Plain
A plain puzzle with what almost amounts to a mini-theme. Unusually for Azed, not only is there one solution (16 ac) referred …
Azed 2510
A slightly differently shaped Azed grid this week with 11 rows and 13 columns There were few Scottish references …
Azed No. 2,509 Plain
Easier than usual I thought, but no less enjoyable. Thank you Azed. ACROSS 1 GROWING PAINS Wound dad received in private parts …
Azed No. 2,508 ‘Misprints’ – Competition Puzzle
A misprint puzzle from Azed that I have completed, but not fully parsed. I solved this puzzle over four sittings, and have …
Azed 2507
A quick start on this: after my first pass through the clues I found I’d solved 18. This would normally have been …
Azed No. 2,506 Plain
Fewer gratuitously obscure words than usual. Azed in a gentle mood perhaps? Thank you Azed ACROSS 1 WIGHTLY German, height short, taken …
Azed No. 2,505 Plain
A relatively straightforward plain puzzle this week. It actually took me less time to solve this puzzle than it did to solve …
Azed 2504
Azed gives us our weekly trawl through some of the little-used words in Chambers Dictionary. I found this puzzle …
Azed No. 2,503 Plain
Another fine collection of words, with one clue I can’t explain. Thank you Azed. ACROSS 1 ESCRIBANOS Foreign notaries prohibit nothing in …
Azed 2238
After my run of specials, it’s almost a relief to have “just” a Plain Azed to blog. I didn’t get off too …