The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3573.
Guardian Quiptic 803 Provis
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Guardian Quiptic 803 with Picture Quiz
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An enjoyable straightforward …
Beelzebub 1,308
It may be my imagination, but I do seem to be drawing an easier share of the weeks than Gaufrid recently. In …
Genius 141 / Vlad
The preamble told us that in 11 clues the wordplay produces a letter surplus to the solution. In order, these 11 letters …
Independent on Sunday 1310/Commoner
Took me ages to get going with this one; I’m putting it down to having to put the clocks forward and my …
AZED 2,234
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…)
Independent Saturday Prize Crossword 8877 by Klingsor 28/03/15
We started off very quickly with both of us solving 1AC as soon as we looked at the clue. Despite the setter, …
Guardian Prize 26,531 / Otterden
I know that Otterden has plenty of admirers here but regular readers will know that he does not feature in my long …
Enigmatic Variations 1166 Adventurous Group by Piccadilly
Some normal clues to be jumbled and some clues with additional letters in the wordplay to be entered normally. The extra letters …
Independent 8,882 by Phi
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.
Guardian Cryptic 26536 Chifonie
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Guardian Cryptic 26536 with Picture Quiz
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Independent 8881 / Knut
This is only the third Knut puzzle in the Indy and as it was Thursday, we expected a challenge. There was some …
Financial Times 14,895 by ARTEXLEN
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.