A test area for 15squared
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A Neo on …
My apologies for the late arrival of this blog. The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26544
I’m usually a big fan of her Quiptics, but Hectence has given us an over-complicated one here, I fancy. The grid didn’t …
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I finished most of this quite quickly but then took …
A very straightforward Cyclops for me — an easy solve, with no clue holding me up for long. I’ve been writing the …
The usual high quality, enjoyable puzzle from Poins, if perhaps a little tougher than some, at least for me. The crossing 11 …
It’s Sunday and my shift at the Everyman wheel.
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 …
An interesting mental tussle with Tees – with a variety of cultural references, from a South African golfer to Dante, via the slopes …
A somewhat unusual set-up: across clues are given in pairs, and the method of entry for four across rows is thematic (whatever that might turn out to mean), with no definition given. Another row is unclued, and must be filled with ‘the reason for the WARNING’. The down clues, meanwhile, are not idle – extra letters from their solutions give ‘the subject of the WARNING’.
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 gentle saunter of a grid today from Magwitch. Simple, inambiguous cluing for most part, ruffled ever so slightly by 8dn. Thanks to Magwitch for this Friday treat.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26542.