Photos, including ones of Araucaria
I have recently uploaded some new sets of photos to my Flickr site. There are several sets there covering crossword-related events over …
CloudFlare CAPTCHA – Updated
Update (15:50): I have now received a reply from CloudFlare to say that the problem has been rectified. I no longer get …
Independent 8,467 by Anax
For quite a while Anax was absent from the Indy on weekdays, but he made a welcome reappearance recently and does not …
Guardian 26,121 – Arachne
A puzzle from the easy end of the Arachnid spectrum, apart from a couple that delayed me at the end, though no …
Financial Times 14486 Neo
Like other Neo puzzles, one that’s not a pushover. In fact, I needed the Nina up high at the top and down low …
Independent 8,466 by Quixote
Second blog today so a bit rushed, seemed quite easy except for 1ac which I’d not heard of. Across 1 CY PRES …
Guardian 26,120 by Rufus
Typical Rufus crossword of cryptic and double definitions to start the week. Not much else to add but a welcome change of …
Guardian Quiptic 733 / Nutmeg
As you probably discovered, having so many unchecked letters at the start of words makes a crossword a bit harder to start …
Guardian Genius 125 / Paul
Quite typically, I forgot I was meant to be blogging the Genius puzzle this month, so we solved it in a rush …
Independent on Sunday 1,240 – Commoner
I mentioned a few months ago that I was very impressed by Commoner’s style, and this puzzle hasn’t done anything to make …
AZED 2,164 Playfair
I admit to a slight feeling of trepidation when I opened my Observer last Sunday and noticed that it was a Playfair …
Everyman 3503/November 24
Another good’un – as always – from Everyman, containing just one phrase with which I was unfamiliar. And a small typo in …
Independent Saturday Prize Puzzle 8459 / Bannsider – 23 November 2013
As soon as we saw it was Bannsider today, we knew we were in for a tricky challenge – and we were …
Guardian Prize Puzzle 26,113 by Paul
My solving partner Timon and I knocked this off in under an hour, but once we had the long anagram the rest …
Enigmatic Variations No. 1096: Demand by Samuel
The preamble to DEMAND tells us that ‘the hunt is on’ for the unclued 14D. In 34 clues an extra letter in …