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Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 18, 2020 My first-in was 12ac (OCHRE), my last 1ac (CATMINT) and I spent …
A typically tough Vlad puzzle that will wake up your little grey cells. This was a fine puzzle, as long as your …
I found this quite tough. One of those puzzles where the clues seemed obvious only after I had found the answer. Thank …
Poor old Filbert has had me now three times in a row. In past blogs I have been very enthusiastic about his …
Nudnix – a setter new to me. Preamble: The theme involves two events – one possibly apocryphal – that happened on …
Thanks to Falcon for an enjoyable one. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Onlooker at the side of stall, extremely …
It’s been three months of lockdown since we last blogged a Radian puzzle, so we looked forward to this……. … and we …
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28197. A not too difficult offering from Qaos, with, as usual, a theme: musical instruments. There …
Nice to see a Slormgorm this morning. A pleasant and fairly easy Monday solve. Thanks to Slormgorm! ACROSS 1. Load of drugs …
One of our regular Quiptic setters with another enjoyable (but occasionally tricky) puzzle. Most of the standard clue types are here: simple …
Vulcan fills his / her regular fortnightly slot with a typical Monday medley of anagrams, charades and double and cryptic definitions. Thanks …
I found this quite hard going with the longer clues proving to be quite a struggle. 1 across was particularly difficult with …
Typical Cyclopsean fare, book-ended by two references to ‘members’, neither of which are MPs…but also two uncharacteristic setting/editing slips, at 1A and 20D?
Yet another puzzle in Everyman’s distinctive style. The standard Everyman features are all here: a related pair of long entries (when I …
A slightly differently shaped Azed grid this week with 11 rows and 13 columns There were few Scottish references …