This is the thirty-eighth Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords. The whole point of these crosswords is support and encouragement of new solvers, so special rules for these crosswords apply – see here – those rules include not posting solving times.
Listen With Others
Listen With Others is in the process of moving from its current website (listenwithothers.com) to fifteensquared.net. It will no longer be a …
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This is a bit of hidden text how can we [reveal-text]reveal[/reveal-text] it?
Troubleshooting
You know the drill
Test post
Hello
Investigating Maskarade
This was added using keystrokes: ctrl-shift+U+0+0+E+9 then letting go of ctrl-shift. It is an “e acute”: é It also works with ctrl-shift+U+E+9: …
Half Man Half Biscuit
Half Man Half Biscuit If I was half man half biscuit I would be Lionel Richie and Digestive. Lionel Richie doesn’t seem …
Financial Times 16,682 / Aardvark
The scheduled blogger hasn’t been able to be with us today, for one reason or another, so here is an analysis of …
Inquisitor index: Setters
Some setters use more than one pseudonym …
Inquisitor index
“The series of crosswords, now known as Inquisitor, began in 1988, headed simply Crossword. It has since appeared every Saturday, except on …
Hihoba -Eclogue
While writing this blog, I have just heard the bad news about the Christmas lockdown! As this will come out just after …
Mike – Raich
Raich is a fairly prolific, and long-standing, Indy and IOS setter, but this is the first of his Indys I have blogged - although I did cover a couple of his Enigmatic Variations barred/thematic puzzles, way back in 2011 and beyond!
PeeDee – Leonidas
A very nice puzzle. Traditional in style but not not old-fashioned in delivery. Thank you Leonidas. ACROSS 1 PTERODACTYLS Early birds in …
Duncan – Phi
Phi gives us a good challenge to end the working week (if there is such a standard thing these days) …