Quiptic crossword No 527. I am around for most of this morning, so will blog the puzzle. Read more >> Categories Guardian 40 Comments. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Across. Top puzzle, that. There are some lovely surfaces: I liked the baddie having a moment of self-doubt in 13a, the rather exciting international match in 17a, the self. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. Across (a) BE(CA. A good one for less experienced solvers, I think; for this reason I’ve tried to give full explanations. The preamble was fairly short and told us that one (related) element is lacking from each of the first 12 italicised clues. 9 Run-down property due proper reconstruction DOER UPPER (DUE PROPER)* with ‘reconstruction’ as the. (. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. 11,577 by Twin;My solving notes for TREASURE HUNT simply say ‘WOW!’ once I got to the end of this Herculean task… Yet another carte blanche – no bars, clue numbers or even enumerations! – but at least the clues are in ‘normal’ order, so it isn’t a pure jigsaw – I guess I have to be grateful for small mercies. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 39 Comments. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. tennis point. Hard in places as you’d expect, for a change Filbert has included a helpful Nina, the outside columns read HELPFUL LETTERS although they weren’t particularly helpful until late in the solve, thanks Filbert. Constant criticism curtailed at parting (6)The Don provides this morning's FT puzzle. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. June 1, 2020 June 1, 2020 by Pierre. May 29, 2023 by Pierre. Guardian Quiptic 1,228/Matilda. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. com. A spin in a car, for example, and spin bowlers are normally also slow bowlers. The Guardian. January 2, 2020 by Bertandjoyce. Financial Times Guardian Independent. Read more >>Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. Having written up the blog we are now wondering why?Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Strangely, there is one clue, 27dn, that appears to be seriously broken but which I solved easily nonetheless. Loads of envelopes, plus a handful (or two) of other standard devices. Almost as easy as this week’s Listener (OK — last week’s). Only one sense of “garotte” is at work here,. Across: 1: NIGHT OWL: Bird is close and drier having abandoned side of lake (5,3): Charade of NIGH (close) and TOWeL (minus ‘e’, having abandoned side of lake; nice misdirection on drier – here as a noun rather than as an adjective, although some would argue that the noun form should be spelt dryer)Don’t Get Me Wrong by Opsimath. Thanks Paul B. Phi usually appears on Friday rather than today (Thursday). Definitions are underlined in the clues. Some cleverly misleading clues, some fantastic cryptic definitions, and just a few simpler ones to help fill the grid. I think of Mudd as the master of the double definition and my clue of the week is his DD at 29ac (EYE-CATCHING) and I. 9 With. A fellow repeatedly found in home is most uncool (7) NAFFEST : A + FF (2x/repeatedly, abbrev. Sun 4 Jun 2023 19. 26d was also yet to yield itself. I like my birds and I love my cricket, so I couldn’t not have a good crack at this one. Does “by air” really = “in flight”? 10: TAKE ON dd: 12: SPRAT dd: 13: SOLITAIRE dd: 14: ANIMUS I’M (I am) in AN US (American): 16: GAROTTE dd Generally a dd involves two senses of the defined word. Cast a stone i n Devon (6): SEATON: An anagram (‘cast’) of ‘a stone’. A letter must be inserted into all down and most across clues before solving. I also like 10A (WELL-NIGH). Definitions are underlined in the clues. As it is the last Wednesday of the month, one would expect to find Crosophile standing in for Dac. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Quiptic Quiptic crossword No 1,221. Speedy 1441 <<< Older Puzzles. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. 83 thoughts on “Guardian 29,076 – Vulcan”. A complex preamble to say the least. Across; 6/16: SNOOPER’S CHARTER: Big Brother sort of thing – crap sort here’s no different (8,7) (CRAP SORT HERE’S NO)* AInd: different: 8: EUROS : English otherwise upset, flooded by American cash (5) E[nglish], OR< (otherwise, upset) flooded (covered by) US (American): 11: ROAD TO RUIN: Trump, dismissing politician on radio,. Decorate (5) 13. May 26, 2023 May 22, 2023 by Widdersbel. There will be a meeting for crossword setters and solvers at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, SE1 1NH, coinciding with the annual Times Crossword Championship. The author’s real name was David John Moore Cornwell. February 20, 2023 by Pierre. April 2023. BARNARDS STAR BAR (STRANDS A R}*. Tue 27 Jun 2023 19. Filbert was on duty last Sunday so a little surprised to see him on again today. When there’s something special going on in the world around us, the FT has its very own crossword specialist to present us a reminder: Gaff. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Sun 21 Apr 2002 19. Quiptic crossword No 1,227 Published: 21 May 2023 . You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Quiptic crossword No 1,227. Contact the crossword editors. 10 TORT ILL AAcross; No. Rodriguez provides today’s challenge. A few solutions that may be connected to Christmas but that is perhaps purely coincidental. Single letters or words had to be removed from all of the 40 clues before solving and these removals revealed what solvers had to highlight in the completed grid – 43 cells had to be highlighted. 10 Octahedral crystal, a chunk with end broken off. Print | Accessible version. regularly) “ repasts “. Independent 10,365 by Monk. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman. US lexicographer — Jacobean playwright (7) 11. I was relieved finally to retrieve my solved copy of this from the recycling bin, as I did not want to find time for re-solving it before doing the blog. This was really enjoyable, not a walk in the park more, but rewarding if you stick with it. A quick start with the longer clues all falling early, then got stuck for a while in the North-West. April 18, 2011 by Pierre. HUMBER: 8 doubt expressed before using most of federal capital (6) HUM + BER[N] (capital of the Swiss. Guardian Quiptic 1,246/Placeholder. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quite a delightful morning exercise which did not trouble me at all except 23A but help was very quickly forthcoming. This didn’t seem quite like usual Thursday fare, since Thursdays tend to be rather difficult, for me at any rate, and although there are several places here where I don’t fully understand what’s going on, it did seem to be rather easier than usual. Speedy, Everyman and Azed Email. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here. Across; 1: A STIFF UPPER LIP : Hiker by border following dog with no lead, one kept by Briton? (1,5,5,3) [m]ASTIFF (dog with no lead) UPPER (hiker – as in raising something) LIP (border) The clue the provided the breakthrough in the top half and most of the puzzle, when I eventually got it – purely from definition and letter count. I pencilled BURDEN in over-confidently for 8 Across. The Guardian. 1 Tapestery – Apes + T(itian) in TRY 5 Rabbit – Rabbi + T(time) 10 Arson – A+R(adical)+SON 11 Provender – P(ost) + Rover around END (scrap) 12 Coloradp Springs – COL(onel) + OR (soldiers) + ADO (trouble) SPRINGS (starts) 13 Paradise –. Across; 1: COBBLERS + PEGS (= wickets = cricket stumps) – this stuff. The preamble tells us that S and B have the same meaning throughout. The Quiptic is intended as a puzzle for beginners (or those who don’t have a lot of time to spend), and this one fits the bill nicely, with plenty of straightforward anagrams and double definitions among other clearly-indicated. developing, of A GAP UNDER RO(A)D 11: H<>IFI: Sound system starts to hum; it’s fairly irritating (4) / first letters, or starts, of ‘Hum Its Fairly Irritating’: 13:. Across: 1. Abbreviations. Thank you. Across: 1: GET A ROOM: What’s said when one’s due to be cuddled by future partner (3,1,4): ETA=estimated time of arrivale=”What’s said when one’s due”; inside/”cuddled by” GROOM=”future partner”; &lit definition: 5: CONDOM: Rubber rings held by campaigners next to motorway (6): O and O=”rings”; held by CND=Campaign for. Another enjoyable mixed bag from Cinephile. Free crosswords that can be completed online by mobile, tablet and desktop, and are printable. I found this puzzle hard to get into, perhaps because, as I realised today, I have so little experience of solving Crosophile’s puzzles. Guardian Quiptic 1,214/Bartland. My clue of the week is the delightful and brilliant 5 down (STANDOFFISHNESS) and I also applaud 1,6 (ACHILLES TENDON) and 22,26 (TOWN CENTRE). I must apologize now for not replying to any comments this week but Nick and I are in Northern Cyprus. 1a, 25a, 2d, 4d, 6d amused me especially. I can see why there was a little confusion about 6 Down. April 25, 2023 at 11:28 am . Thanks to Picaroon for an enjoyable solve. Across; Clue No: Additional letter: Entry <> = spaces(s) Clue (definition underlined) / Logic/Parsing1: A: PARADE GROUND: A gap under road developing: drill here (12, two words) / anag, i. The setter is asking you to ‘distribute’ the letters AID in a random way ‘through’ the letters C, N and D. and quite a challenge it was! A first reading the clues showed that there is a theme, with 3d the key word. May 26, 2023 May 22, 2023 by Widdersbel. Set by: Guy. Monday Prize Crossword on 17 May 2010 Once again, a gentle start to the week with the maestro of the slick and smooth clues. Perhaps the day after a bank holiday is like a Monday, because this had a very Mondayish (or even Quiptic-ish) feel, with very straightforward clueing throughout. Pan is one of our longest-standing Quiptic setters, and she has given us a pleasing Quiptic this morning that generally does what it’s supposed to, but is marred by a couple of editing errors. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. Gaufrid in 1993. Kairos steps in for Dac this week – and we found this quite difficult to get to grips with. 00 EDT Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep. FLUID OUNCE. Learn how your comment data is processed. Quiptic crossword No 127. A combination of some very straightforward clues [eg 5ac, 16ac, 24ac, 4dn], a number of anagrams, including two excellent ones, and, unusually for Pasquale, only one word, I think, that could be called at all out of the ordinary. Nice puzzle with one clue I cannot explain. OBJECTOR: She opposes men on purpose (8) OBJECT (purpose) + OR (‘other ranks’, men), with an Arachne-style non-sexist “she”: 9. ACROSS 1 VIVACE V (Roman numeral for 5) IV (ditto for 4) ACE (winner, like an unreturnable serve in tennis) musical term for in a lively manner 4 EVOLVING (R) evolving = going round 9 TAGGED *(gadget) 10. Solving time – about 7 mins. Loved 14a for ingeniously tying the definition with the anagram. for “fellow”) contained in ( found in) NEST (a home/a place where, say, an insect breeds or shelters). “You get an ology, you’re a scientist! 11: INCONNU – (CON in INN) + U. Across: 1. Across; 1: MPRET – PR in MET. British dished rupees out for such as Gunga Din (6): BHISTI: BRITISH* less R. Across 1. Very bad, the French records (10)Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 4, 2018 I found this a bit harder than usual for Rosa and just as entertaining. Daily easy, quick and cryptic crosswords puzzles. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Quiptic crossword No 1,207. 1 One dumb spy novel? Not book for Le Carré, maybe (9) PSEUDONYM An anagram of ONE DUMb SPY – anagrind is ‘novel’ without B (book) or ‘not book’. A lovely cinematic experience from Brummie today. Guardian Quiptic 1,228/Matilda. I praised Mudd last time I blogged one of his puzzles and wonder if he was inspired by that to give us an especially good one. May 7, 2023 May 7, 2023 by Widdersbel. 00 EDT. AMPUTEES: People like Nelson meet up. However, I do have an aversion to repetition of the same device in the same puzzle (see 11 Down) ACROSS 1 PULLS OFF Pulls off (the opposite of doesn’t push on) 5 BRACES dd and anyone with trousers being. A lot easier than the run-of-the-mill. Quick crossword No 16,581. Quick crossword No 16,664. Crosswords Quiptic crossword No 1,227 Print | Accessible version Set by: Hectence Sun 21 May 2023 19. Solving time: 14:15. Print | Accessible version. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 4 . Solving time: 20′ Another rather fast solve for me… though spent a couple of minutes at first staring until the first clue (EVITA) succumbed. Print | Accessible version. We were 22 on the Friday pub quiz crawl and exactly sixty in number at the main event on Saturday in the Fox and Roman, whose staff excelled themselves in hospitality, organisation and (most importantly!) food and drink. A web-only, cryptic puzzle for beginners and those in a hurry. A very enjoyable challenge. A puzzle from Hoskins to start the Indy week. 1 Tapestery – Apes + T(itian) in TRY 5 Rabbit – Rabbi + T(time) 10 Arson – A+R(adical)+SON 11 Provender – P(ost) + Rover around END (scrap) 12 Coloradp Springs – COL(onel) + OR (soldiers) + ADO (trouble) SPRINGS (starts) 13 Paradise –. Favourites were 19/29, 3dn, 16dn and 19dn. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence. Perhaps a grid we haven’t seen before, as I don’t remember ever blogging a Beelzebub with quite so many across clues. (DUE PROPER)* with ‘reconstruction’ as the. 31ac is being too clever for it’s own good, I feel. Set by: Pan. June 19, 2023 May 21, 2023 by Kitty. 15 thoughts on “Independent on Sunday 1,734 by Italicus”. Here he comes up with a fresh way of clueing PINAFORE and finds a connection between LANCASHIRE HOTPOT and PRESTONPANS. This crossword would have been a bit easier, had the web version not had a glitch (at least on my machine) which led to every letter I typed in being repeated in hte next square. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. crosser. A lot easier than the run-of-the-mill. Strangely, there is one clue, 27dn, that appears to be seriously broken but which I solved easily nonetheless. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. 1. Independent 9064/Hob. . Got most of the rhs out but the lhs was mainly blank. . I probably had an advantage as Tone is my non-nickname nickname but I’d best keep quiet about thatGuardian Quiptic 1,224/Chandler. The Crossword Solver find answers to clues found in the New York Times Crossword, USA Today Crossword, LA Times Crossword, Daily Celebrity Crossword, The Guardian, the Daily Mirror, Coffee Break puzzles, Telegraph crosswords and many other popular crossword puzzles. At the end of the allotted time, some gaps existed in the left bottom corner (22a, 29a, 18d). Thanks to Picaroon. Basilisk at his witty best. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed (Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. May 29, 2023 by Pierre. Double definition. The first of the extra letters in the word play. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 21, 2015. Solving time, 41 mins. Read more >> Quiptic 1,229 by Anto June 5, 2023 by Quirister Our Quiptic puzzle is from Anto today. 3: P(R)OSER – the definition is “Writer (no poet)” – the parenthetical qualification emphasizing that our writer only produces prose as opposed to poetry. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Thanks to Chifonie. I may well have passed through this Devon town, but that would have been a very long time ago. It also has a presence in the US and Australia as Guardian US and Guardian Australia. May 21, 2023. Lorraine: Nice easy plod along this week, had to look up 1 down and 7 down to confirm my guesses. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 10, 2018 I am liking Redshank more and more. Your trust is our top concern, so businesses can't pay to. Nick: Average Azed this week, 7/10 for me. This is one of those cryptic defs that might really be a double def depending on how loose a definition one expects for one part. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku. Seeing the massive fall of snow in the UK, he must have wished he tarried longer down under or stopped over with Uncle Yap, 3 degree north of the equator and enjoying. Thanks WANDERER, for a pleasant and witty challenge. Canada. Some tricky clues here. Another fine Quiptic from one of the more recent additions to the setting stable for this slot. And Paul’s awesome crossword utility automatically parses the (relaunched) Guardian site’s PDF once again which is nice too. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 21, 2015. Find the clues that have the same answer. Thanks to Carpathian for the puzzle. Guardian Quiptic 1,072/Pan. A well-clued and straightforward puzzle from Hectence today, with only a couple of clues falling into the more difficult category. I can’t see it in Chambers but then again, I can’t see any other candidates. Pan is one of our longest-standing Quiptic setters, and she has given us a pleasing Quiptic this morning that generally does what it’s supposed to, but is marred by a couple of editing errors. The puzzle is from Monday 18 th June. Set by: Kite. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Quiptic 1227. This type of clue is one of the reasons that many solvers don’t appreciate Anto’s efforts at compiling a Quiptic puzzle. (1A) Group to assess for a speaker a passage between seats (7) (1I) Protection for the finger or the limb possibly (7) (3A) Examine source of contagion in medical facility (4) (3F) Top. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Top puzzle, that. Without the help of the anagrams, I think I would have found it even harder. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. d. Not the easiest of Quiptics, with a few awkward constructions, but most of it fits the brief for “beginners and those in a hurry” and I’ve attempted to explain where it might not. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Nice misdirection with ‘small pad’ seeming to reference a bedsit: 10: EARHOLE – E + A + ROLE around H. 00 EDT. It’s that time of the year for a crossword from Courtier. : 10: OLOGY – 0 + LOGY. November 2, 2015 November 2, 2015 by Pierre. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed. Financial Times Sunday No. Solved in just under 20 mins, a bit slower than usual for Virgilius, where a theme usually becomes clear to help the solver along. com For technical problems email userhelp@theguardian. PeeDee has been having internet access problems so I am standing in for him, not that I mind because Monk is one of my favourite setters. 1227 Judge Pl is a 2,577 square foot house on a 9,053 square foot lot with 3 bedrooms and 2. Announcements. Thanks to Pan. I think the puzzle is a mixed bag. Only my LOI (13d)was new to me. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. Guardian Quiptic 1,226/Bartland. Good morning, Quiptic crossworders. Thanks to Chifonie. definitions are underlined. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 30, 2014. Recommended Reviews. Across: 9: CHIPOLATA: Sausage and tea to keep a pilot refreshed (9): CHA (“tea”) to keep *(a pilot) [anag:refreshed]: 10: AGAPE: Love break in hospital department (5): GAP (“break”) in A+E. cd cryptic definition. It was. In down clues these give the first of five sentences of a statement. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Across 1. Across. SURTAX: Charge almost certain to prove trying (6) SUR[E] + TAX: 10. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Mudd’s puzzle today was a pleasant solve, themed around Scotland. Nothing too troublesome, although a tiny grumble for the purists might be he use of “a” in 12 across. Independent 10,365 by Monk. Jane and I would like to thank everyone for making the (first) Sloggers and Betters York weekend such an amazing event. FF: 9 DD: 7Not sure how hard this actually was since I solved it over several days in between various meetings. It’s perhaps a bit late but thank you, essexboy, for putting my problem into words and for finding a possible, if far-fetched, explanation! Ed. May 21, 2023. Across 1 We sing in Oregon, America, with chaplain leading (6) CHORUS – CH (chaplain) OR (Oregon) US (America). Double helping of steak and kidney pie!Puzzles like this one, where the clues given in alphabetical order of their answers, tend to involve a fair amount of cold solving before a tipping point where (if the solver is lucky) everything slots into place. e. So, another new setter has wandered into this space. 1227 Cranbrook Street N. A good Quiptic-level puzzle, with mostly straightforward constructions and nothing too obscure. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Enter your clue into the clue box and 7 question marks into the letter/pattern box. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence; Independent on Sunday 1,734 by Italicus; Azed 2656; Everyman 3,995; Independent 11,421 by Serpent;Redshank cheered me up this morning This was a very enjoyable solve with some clever wordplay and at least one clue that sent me off down a blind alley. Gaufrid – October 2018. SURTAX: Charge almost certain to prove trying (6) SUR[E] + TAX: 10. An enjoyable and relatively gentle end to the week. June 19, 2023 at 2:39 pm . Across. There are five letters. OBJECTOR: She opposes men on purpose (8) OBJECT (purpose) + OR (‘other ranks’, men), with an Arachne-style non-sexist “she”: 9. Many creative definitions which added spice to the clues. Sun 1 Jan 2023 19. A typical offering from Armonie. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Print | Accessible version. A pleasant and easy outing with Rosa. Cryptic crossword No 29,076. 00 EST. The last two answers need your inputs. ) Slow to get started, but the pace quickened towards the finish (maybe it was the late night last night). July 18, 2022 July 18, 2022 by scchua. An enjoyable and relatively gentle end to the week. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 30, 2013. Ignoring obstructive bars and replacing letters in barred-off and corner cells with the letters IN GRIM AUTHOR’S CV, three sides of the completed grid will reveal a quotation. As of around 7:00am UK time, the Guardian Quiptic 1,246 is not available to blog: the site is still offering Carpathian’s puzzle from last week. Quiptic crossword No 1,227. Come Into Force by Apt. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Comprehend (8) 9. Quick, Cryptic, Prize, Quiptic and Genius Email guardian. Sun 1 Jan 2023 19. Across: 1. This delayed me. Guardian Quiptic. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. The preamble for Genius 142, when you can work your way through the hotch-potch of ‘temporary’ (?) workarounds the Grauniad have built around this ‘non-standard’ puzzle which has been there for 10-plus years, tells us that we are looking for seventeen partners of well-known pairings – a device which I am sure has been used. (an anonymous puzzle in the paper, but the setter has already been identified elsewhere) Solving time: ages. The usual cryptic definitions galore as one expects from this setter. My solving notes for TREASURE HUNT simply say ‘WOW!’ once I got to the end of this Herculean task… Yet another carte blanche – no bars, clue numbers or even enumerations! – but at least the clues are in ‘normal’ order, so it isn’t a pure jigsaw – I guess I have to be grateful for small mercies. Learn how your comment data is processed. Definitions are underlined in the clues. ,U. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Today’s Cryptics. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Across. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. 1227 (7,4) 7. (a bugbear of mine), I can’t find much to fault in this very enjoyable puzzle. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. Last Monday, the FT changed the usual setter and gave me Cincinnus to blog. Not too tricky, with neat cluing and surfaces. Most probably the last photo taken of him. First up, a big “Thank you!” to Gaufrid, for covering for me these past few weeks when I was away on vacation. The only other herald I think I can remember is the something Poursuivant – 9: ALLOPURINOL – all, N in (pour oil)* – an anti-gout drugQuiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. Everyman No 3,995. Smooth clueing all the way. Bartland is a comparatively new setter of the Quiptic. Read more >> Guardian Quiptic 1,228/Matilda May 29, 2023. ACROSS. I liked 13 & 20 particularly. Quick crossword No 16,664. Better late than never, I hope. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Never heard of 2D but the clue is clear enough and did smile at 20D and 23A. I’m happy to share it, now that this website has gone up. Good puzzle with flashes of wit. Across: 5. I think Jason is a new setter for me – hullo, Jason! – and, aside from its opening with an anagram at 1ac. Quiptic 1,233 by Hectence. No doubt by late morning there will be an addition to the online puzzle of the ‘Special Instructions’ kind, where we will be treated to the missing. Across entries in the two top and bottom rows, and down entries in the four left and right columns had an extra letter in the wordplay not entered in the grid. Quiptic 1,253 by Bartland; Independent 11,578/Wire; Guardian Cryptic 29,232 by Vulcan; Everyman 4,021/12 November; Azed No. 9a and 7d seem rather appropriate words to be clued by anagrams, and 2d has a delightfully odd surface. Monday Prize Crossword on 21 June 2010 Another painless way to start the week, solving smooth clues and enjoying slick surfaces. Across; 1: TYPE – dd: 3: PINCUSHION – CHOPINUSIN*. March 13, 2023 by Quirister. The original blogger couldn’t make it on time, so it’s me again. Liked too many clues to list them all here. There was a nice bit of deception in the note above the puzzle which said that the four undefined clues “were connected with a comma”. THE WASP FACTORY – anagram of OF CREW THAT PAYS. Bravo/Brava to Chandler. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together.