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(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An enjoyable straightforward …
It may be my imagination, but I do seem to be drawing an easier share of the weeks than Gaufrid recently. In …
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3573.
The preamble told us that in 11 clues the wordplay produces a letter surplus to the solution. In order, these 11 letters …
Took me ages to get going with this one; I’m putting it down to having to put the clocks forward and my …
I managed to charge through this pretty quickly at my desk while pretending to work (and listening to The Rolling Stones on YouTube — unrelated I think). A couple of wordplays still to resolve which I fully plan to… (best laid plans…)
We started off very quickly with both of us solving 1AC as soon as we looked at the clue. Despite the setter, …
I know that Otterden has plenty of admirers here but regular readers will know that he does not feature in my long …
Some normal clues to be jumbled and some clues with additional letters in the wordplay to be entered normally. The extra letters …
Every Friday we have the same thing, a very satisfactory and pleasant crossword from Phi, with few if any points of controversy. Initially, when I saw the answer ‘raindrop’ I thought Phi was balancing out all those rock music Ninas we so often have, by having nicknames of pieces of music, possibly just by Chopin, but either he is, and I am ignorant, or this was a false lead.
As usual with Phi for some reason, I was slow to start but then made steady progress.
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(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A nice puzzle, …
This is only the third Knut puzzle in the Indy and as it was Thursday, we expected a challenge. There was some …
We had a couple of quibbles (which we shall probably find are down to us missing the point rather than any deficiency in the crossword) but overall we enjoyed this.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26535.