The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26096.
Independent 8444 / Dac
It’s one of the first three weeks of the month so Dac presents the Wednesday puzzle. It gets harder …
Inquisitor 1305: Take… by Nimrod
The preamble for this puzzle by Nimrod (John Henderson, editor of the Inquisitor series and prolific crossword compiler for all of the …
Independent 8,443 by Rorschach
There are several clues here that proved rather difficult. Rorschach has produced a crossword that is certainly good in parts, I remain …
Financial Times 14462 Redshank
Is it me or are Tuesday FTs no longer a relaxing start to the week? But this was enjoyable, and there are some …
Guardian 26,097 by Brummie
November the fifth and Brummie is playing games with us…. Quite a lot of the answers are card games, found this a …
Independent 8442 by Quixote
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I found the top half of this somewhat harder than …
Guardian Quiptic 729 / Orlando
A typical delight from Orlando – the clues are very straightforward as befits a Quiptic, yet carefully crafted to give smooth and …
Independent On Sunday 1,236 – Kairos
Another Sunday, another Kairos puzzle for me. This one was considerably harder than the last, with a number of words that were …
Azed 2160
I found this mostly pretty easy, finishing it (so I thought) without aids in about half an hour, greatly helped by getting …
Everyman 3499/27 October
Another well-constructed, accessible puzzle from Everyman. A couple of clue types that this setter doesn’t often use in today’s offering. …
Guardian Genius 124 by Picaroon
The preamble, or ‘Special Instructions’, as the Genius calls them, tell us to resolve one clash in each across solution, working out …
Guardian Prize Puzzle 26,089 by Biggles
This is the first puzzle by Biggles for over two years, if the search facility on fifteen squared is to be trusted …
Enigmatic Variations No. 1092: Burnt Offering by Mynot
Hmmm…a ‘burnt offering’…not quite the 5th of November, so unlikely to be Guy Fawkes…the (reasonably brief) preamble tells us that in ‘most’ …
Independent 8435 by Anax (Saturday Prize Puzzle 26 October 2013)
Remember, remember, the 26th of October…unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it up to the Northern S&B get-together last weekend…but will Anax …