Crosswords Blog Quick Cryptic Prize Weekend Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed Quiptic A web-only, cryptic puzzle for beginners and those in a hurry. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Browse real estate in 64111, MO. Schadenfreude shows up here about every couple of months. Hectence has been doing Quiptics for quite a few years now, I think, and is very good at them,. Set by: Kite. ACROSS. Everything was ultimately solvable, though 1ac was unfamiliar enough to require some undirected Chambers-browsing on my part. Across: 1: SPINOZA: 2’s handling of media with lightweight article SPIN (handling of media) + OZ (ounce) + A = Baruch Spinoza , a 17C Dutch PhilosopherSun 4 Jun 2023 19. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. July 28, 2015 July 27, 2015 by scchua (Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. Speedy 1445 <<< Older Puzzles. 00 EDT. This happened me with this one to give me my fastest Indy solve of the year so far. 7 PHI Hidden. 00 EST Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 00 EDT. Thanks Jason. June 19, 2023 June 19, 2023 by flashling. Cryptic crossword No 29,191. 5 . Don’t worry, this isn’t one of them – it’s definitely a Quiptic. After this actor was used by Mordred on Monday, I put him into my memory bank, but he’s there again on his 28th birthday as the Indy recorded today. November 20, 2023 by Quirister. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 5: AMIDST: In the middle of Germany, stuck in some fog (6): D (“Germany”) stuck in A MIST (“some fog”): 10: LORELEI: Garland pursuing role playing attractive singer (7):. Well, perhaps ‘pummel’ is putting it too strongly. Guardian Quiptic 1,246/Placeholder. June 19, 2023 June 19, 2023 by flashling. Quiptic crossword No 1,252. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. An insertion of SS for the ‘borders’ of ‘stupendous’ in BLOOMS. Only 5d gave me a little trouble. Independent 11,578/Wire. . 1: KLOOTCH – (cloth OK)*. Hectence has been setting the Quiptic for many years and is a bit of a specialist in the form. Across: 1: MOBILE: triple definition – mobile phone, hanging decoration and the US port: 4: WINNIPEG: PINE* in WING (annexe): 9: NIEVRE: ER (The Queen, Elizabeth Regina) and VEIN (temperament) reversed – department of France, home of the Pouilly Fumé wine: 10: BARNSLEY: North and South (partners in bridge) inside BARLEY. Sun 20 Nov 2022 19. Across; 1: Antique black diamonds always found in half of boutique that’s disorganized (12, 3 words) — OBJET DE VERTU — (jet d ever) in (bout{ique})*: 10: Spite of old to detest in female beast (6) — MAUGRE — ma(ug)re — I’m not sure which of the bits ‘of old’ refers to (ug is an archaic word and so is maugre); usually Azed makes this clear. Home yesterday from hospital with a viciously painful new knee. 1 What a barrister does is obvious (6,2,6) STANDS TO REASON Double definition. Another beautifully crafted entry-level puzzle from Everyman and an illustration of the reason why I always recommend him to any mates who want to get into cryptics. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. The number of people in their late 20s to early 40s. EP6. I was the blogger of her first Cryptic, and remarked then that I found it mostly very easy, with several Quiptic-type clues. Quick crossword No 16,664. After Crux’s surprise appearance a week ago, we’re back to ‘normal’. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. RIBOSOME: RIE (essentially bRIEf) covering BOSOM (“doing what bra does”). I made an absolute pig’s ear of this puzzle. I solved Ac 26, 9, 31, 30, 29, 12, 13, 14 and 28 first before having to move to the Dn set, where I got 1, 3, 5, 25, 24, 23, 22, 18, 20, and the latter half of 19 (…LESS) before I had to ponder for other answers. Well, as easy as one-two-three [four], I would aver. But I said that last time I blogged Pasquale, and most folk differed. You always know you are in for a carefully constructed and thoughtfully clued Quiptic when Pasquale is in the saddle. Here we have another great puzzle from Mudd. Sun 1 Jan 2023 19. SC @12 and muffin @13: and across Wales where anything with the word ‘Twr’ is also a hill. Across; 8. This one, the first in 2018, seems to mark a farewell to Monday Prize puzzles. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Daily easy, quick and cryptic crosswords puzzles. Set by: Anto. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. A typical Everyman, smooth surfaces, clear wordplay and definitions, no obscurities, a pleasure to solve and blog. Monday 2 October 2023. 10 thoughts on “Independent on Sunday, 1,224 – Kairos”. The people living in ZIP code 27610 are primarily black or African American. A puzzle that nmsindy found extremely hard with a massive anagram, eventually after about 2 hours had to confess defeat on that and on some other clues. (B) Losses (including losses not compensated for by insurance or otherwise) on the destruction, in whole or in part, theft or seizure, or requisition or condemnation of—We always look forward to the challenge of an Anax prize puzzle and this was definitely a challenge! However, we’re not wildly enthusiastic about long anagrams and this puzzle has eight fifteen-letter answers, three of which are anagrams and two more have anagrams within the solutions, so this took the edge off the challenge to a certain extent. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. It’s Hectence’s turn to provide a Quiptic this week. BASHFUL (the name of one of the seven dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). Quiptic 1,221 by Hectence. Hectence returns to the Quiptic slot with a puzzle that provides the old grey matter with a decent Monday morning workout. Speedy, Everyman and Azed Email observer. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. : 13: DEMOISELLE – (SEED + MOLLIE)*. : 14: oddball – dd. July 8, 2018 by Pierre. It also has a slightly higher than average population density. Across; No. Stick Insect seems to have averaged one or two EVs a year since 2013-or so, and I think I have attempted/solved most of them, but this is the first of his I have had to blog – and what a delightful puzzle it was… Quick, Cryptic, Prize, Quiptic and Genius Email guardian. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Solving time: About 30 mins; two missing, one wrong. Sun 26 Feb 2023 19. The ever-reliable Hectence provides our entertainment today. Solving time: probably 35’ total with lots of interruptions. Our favourite Dickensian returns to the Quiptic slot to pummel our dozy Monday morning brains. Another enjoyable offering from Tuesday regular, Jason. No theme that I can see, but then I usually can’t. I think this is Matilda’s second appearance in the Cryptic slot, after a distinguished career as a Quiptic setter. Guardian Quiptic 1,228/Matilda. Thanks, ChifonieContact the crossword editors. 1 We men are at the top of church’s structure (12) STEEPLEJACKS: JACKS(plural of male name for men) +(at) STEEPLE(the top of church’s structure literally). Thanks Jason. Clear cluing, no obscurities, and enough stuff to keep the improving solver interested as well. . It is published on theguardian. There may be a couple of old chestnuts (e. 1 CUT BOTH WAYS. Monday 2 October 2023. An unusually large number of double definitions this morning, but otherwise the setter demonstrating. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. Lor! Oh so good. Monday and it’s Filbert again, never an easy task from a blogging point of view. cad clue as definition. 18. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Across: 1: DOWNSWING: Experiencing the blues, big-band jazz club movement (9): DOWN (experiencing the blues) SWING (big-band jazz) 6: PUT UP: Build from either boundary? (3,2) cryptic def – palindromeAcross; 7: SPOONFED: Given the dumbing down treatment, old-style court favoured initially by Miliband? SPOON = old-fashioned word meaning ‘court‘ (as a verb); F = favoured initially; ED = MilibandLots of fun from Qaos today. Learn how your comment data is processed. Thanks to Chandler and Scchua. Quiptic 815 by Anto. Across; 9: BEATITUDE – BEAT IT + DUE*. (7) BASHFUL (cryptic description of a boxer’s feelings after he has received many punches [BASHes] during a fight). August 21, 2023 by Pierre. I think “head” and “source” can both apply to the top bit of a river when it appears from the ground. Financial Times 17,446 by JASON. Oh good, another Filbert only seems like yesterday, well last Sunday, I did one of his here and on he was on Thursday too. I thought that this puzzle was quite tough for a Tuesday morning, or maybe my brain is starting to wind down for the festive season. Today’s CrypticsTime on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. The Ace of Hearts makes his (almost) annual appearance. Abbreviations. Across: 1: PACHINKO: After taking in bits of Hong Kong, Al’s game for fun in Tokyo! (8) (Al) PACINO taking in H and K. However, we don’t know which clues are affected in what way or even how many of each there are (only that there are ‘approximately equal numbers of each’). Some rather tricky clues today which meant that this was far from a quick solve for me. This home was built in 1980 and last sold on. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles. Guardian Cryptic 29,031 by Tramp. Dunno about you but I made heavy weather of some of this, not helped by putting a wrong answer in 8d initially. I've been spending most tube journeys recently teaching my daughter, mostly using the FT. Quiptic 1,201 by Anto. Abbreviations. General Chapters: <1231> WATER FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile. crosswords​@theguardian. Mainly got stuck in the SE corner. A typical Dante crossword that was, of course, no match for the two FT puzzles that followed (Redshank, Loroso) as far as difficulty is concerned. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest-running. the section 1231 losses shall be included only if and to the extent taken into account in computing taxable income, except that section 1211 shall not apply. My top clues are 1a (SEMI-PRECIOUS), 13a (GLADIOLI) and 9d (MINIATURE GOLF). Learn how your comment data is processed. Some tricksy parses and clever decoy work from Gurney today. I have in my hand a piece of paper…and unfortunately this is the last time I will be able to say that about a newsprint copy of an Indy Prize Cryptic (;+<)Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 25, 2016 I found this an easier Mudd than the previous two and a puzzle clued with some fine surfaces. Learn how your comment data is processed. Anto has a quirky style that doesn’t please everyone, and is on record as saying that he likes to challenge solvers rather than give them an easy ride. Across. , 26ac) but many clues for even familiar and often-encountered words (e. It took me a long time, but that was because it was good and difficult, and the delay was almost entirely the result of my own incompetence. A seasonal touch when 1 down and 11 down are looked at together. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 27, 2015. A web-only, cryptic puzzle for beginners and those in a hurry. Everyman 3742/1 July. Print | Accessible version. g. In this second sense it qualifies as an & lit clue. An update from John Henderson regarding accommodation at York Racecourse: I’m led to believe that non-S&B bookings are coming up fast on the rails – and if people want a cheap weekend in York, they should get in touch, or we’ll not be able to guarantee places/reserve a few extra. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. July 3, 2023 by Quirister. It’s been three months since we last saw Mass but again he has come up with a themed puzzle that provided a great deal of enjoyment, at least once 8A/2 had been solved. It wouldn’t be Wednesday without Dac now, would it? This was another vintage Dac, in my humble opinion, this time one of medium difficulty on a grid that I did not recognise, with four long entries. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 12 My first impression of this puzzle was that it was too easy. BUMPERS (cups or glasses filled to the brim for drinking a toast; big drinks) + TICKER (slang for the heart). You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Across; No. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. No particular problem with this one, with the two longest words in the centre coming straightaway from the definitions. Valentine @11: There is a gentle sit-com on Radio 4 called ‘To Hull and Back’ by Lucy Beaumont also starring the great Maureen Lipman of that parish. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. One of several old crossword favourites today. com. Excellent crossword from Morph today. June 29, 2015 by newmarketsausage. Water is widely used as a raw material, ingredient, and solvent in the processing, formulation, and manufacture of pharmaceutical products, active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates, compendial articles, and. Set by: Anto. Plenty of entertainment here and not much to moan about. Thank you and please come back more often. single-family home is a 2 bed, 1. Virtually every word in each clue plays an important part in the wordplay or definition with only a few additonal link words to improve the surface. Learn how your comment data is processed. Monday Prize Crossword / Oct 16, 2017. Thank you. In clue order, the second or fifth letters of these words followed (again in clue order) by the alternative selection of these letters give the originator and setting of a quotation which describes how five pairs of answers are to. Quick crossword No 16,664. Is it my imagination or have these puzzles become somewhat easier in recent weeks? It’s now taking me longer to write the blog than it did to solve the puzzle. Stay balanced, grounded and focused, safe in the knowledge that your angels surround and support you as you serve your Divine life purpose and path. Never knowingly done an Armonie before but found this pretty straighforward. In this second sense it qualifies as an & lit clue. Santalin is “the colouring matter of red sandalwood”Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Find below all The Guardian Quiptic Crossword 1231 Answers. Especially in the Down clues there were a lot of cryptic definitions. Abbreviations. A crossword with the upper half considerably easier than the lower, with 14, 21d and 22d taking time/research to fill in. Another Phi-day comes round and yet another classic Phi puzzle. The Guardian. Learn how your comment data is processed. (For those that missed it, this is the completed grid of Independent 6582 by Virgilius. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. Sun 5 Mar 2023 19. Always a challenge but always fair. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. For the first time since I started blogging here, I am moved to seriously criticise a puzzle. The purpose of this site is to provide a daily analysis of, and commentary on, the cryptic puzzles published in the Financial Times, Guardian and Independent (Inquisitor in the i, Enigmatic Variations in the Sunday Telegraph and Cyclops in Private Eye are covered as well). You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. November 2023. Quiptic 1,233 by Hectence. INROAD: An &lit: (RAID ON)* with “antagonist” as the anagram indicatorA treat for me this week Oxymoron – a favourite compiler of mine for many a year. Newer Puzzles >>> The Guardian is one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites along with its sister papers, The. Set by: Chandler Sun 18 Jun 2023 19. March 6, 2023 by Pierre. Solving time: 9:52. This took me several sessions, but I was determined not to cheat. Soundly constructed clues and. Chandler has set a fair Quiptic. I reckon she knows what she’s doing. I think I got a good deal! There’s an abundance of excellent clues, with deft definitions, a handful of ‘lift and separates’, ingenious constructions and some delightful story-telling surfaces, making for a highly enjoyable solve. I was surprised to see Paul in the Prize spot for the second week running – but we had had Picaroon and Philistine on the previous two days and so I perhaps should have guessed. November 21, 2022 by Quirister. g. The stars next to each answer will guide you to the best answer for your clue. Print | Accessible version. WATER FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 00 EST. Across; 9: BEATITUDE – BEAT IT + DUE*. e. 00 EDT. And it’s a Babylonian astronomical cycle — rather long (3600 years). Set by: Hectence Sun 5 Nov 2023 19. Across: 1: LUKEWARM: Conflict between evangelist and medium lacking conviction (8): An envelope (‘between’) of WAR (‘conflict’) in LUKE (‘evangelist. For the first time since I started blogging here, I am moved to seriously criticise a puzzle. Top puzzle, that. 1231 Hastings St , Victoria, BC V8Z2W is currently not for sale. ANGLE : Double defn: 1st: To. . Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. It is published on. Convoluted wordplay – solved from the def. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. September 11, 2023 at 7:36 am . 6 Ten made to run around without information, forgetting disorder. Clue: Wordplay: Entry: 1 . Guardian Quiptic 1,216/Anto. Print | Accessible version. : 9Not being an expert on Azed xmas specials, can’t tell if this is par for the course or a lot harder. Lovely and well-pitched Quiptic this week. I got off to a slow start and didn’t get anything until the last across clue, RETURN MATCH, but things improved when I got into the downs. : 9: puritanism – (up + martinis)*. I would also mention 13a (PERRY MASON) which is clever but, I believe, also slightly flawed in its definition. Across. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and. Pasquale has a well-constructed and tractable Quiptic for our entertainment this morning. You always know you are in for a carefully constructed and thoughtfully clued Quiptic when Pasquale is in the saddle. Across; 1/15: IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: Pubic hair in settee removed with lint (not A1) – cynical excuse for tabloid exposé? (2,3,6,8) (PUBIC HAIR IN SETTEE + LINT – AI)* AInd: removed. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 22 Comments. A puzzle which would almost have been perfect for beginners…. 11 Supporting beam, very much still aliveA tough challenge from BRADMAN this Friday. Print | Accessible version. The puzzle may be found at I thought this at the easier end of the Guardian spectrum, but with some nice ideas. The top-left of the grid held me up with an unfamiliar synonym of ‘river’ and some tricky wordplay. My clue of the week is 3d (CAGE) and I also would pick out 5d (LITERATE). Guardian Quiptic 1,230/Pasquale. 1 HALV(e) AH Pleased to work out a new word from the clear wordplay. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. with a theme around drugs including the surfaces of 13ac and 5dn, as well as UPPER, SEDATES, TAB[let], HORSE=heroin, PILLS, BLOW/SNOW=cocaine, RAINBOW=LSD, TEA/POT, GRASS, HASH BROWNIES, DOPE, DUST… any more? Bartland is inviting you to replace the first T in TWITTER with an S. g. One of those puzzles where the parsing took as much time as the solving did for many clues, if not longer. Across; Clue No: Solution: Clue: Definition (with occasional embellishments) / Logic/parsing 1A: JACOB REES-MOGG: Apparently an upper-class twit, George, involved with job scam (5,4-4) There seems to be an extended submission date for this puzzle, presumably because of the Bank Holidays, so the blog will appear on Saturday 11 June. One entry, an anagram of X’s name (initial + surname), should be highlighted in the final grid. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Guardian Quiptic 1,184/Matilda July 25, 2022 by Pierre Matilda appears comparatively infrequently as our Quiptic setter, but I always enjoy solving and blogging her puzzles. And a bit of biblical stuff as well, which could fall into the same category. Quiptic 1231. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 16, 2014. I haven’t done a crossword since the end of May as I’ve been sailing round Britain in a 35 foot yacht (you can see my blog of the trip here if you are interested). Contact the crossword editors. Definitions are underlined in the clues. The thematic content was a ‘anagram and one letter change’ 7-letter word chain, the first and last words of which came from extra letters in across clue wordplay, and the rest from unclued answers. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. A bit of an unexciting Dante crossword. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 2, 2014. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 24 Comments. ACROSS. 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-referential 1d. June 18, 2023. If I remember correctly the term was introduced to describe a shot regularly played by thegreat Pete Sampras where he jumped and rose high in the air to hit a ball as it was still rising, with very little racket backswing, and the action looked rather like a basketball player jumping to. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Sun 24 Sep 2023 19. Set by: Pasquale. Quite straightforward today, nothing obscure or contentious and decent surfaces in the main. BUMPER STICKER (small label bearing a slogan or advertisement affixed to the BUMPER of a motor vehicle). A special puzzle to mark a special day as Nimrod and Jetdoc marry. This puzzle has additional and missing letters, and misprints in definitions. This one, the first in 2018, seems to mark a farewell to Monday Prize puzzles. Newer Puzzles >>> The Guardian is one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly. At first I thought Crucible was a new setter, but I see he (?) has appeared a few times, most recently in September this year. 11 With stylish clue, pretty much doing nothing unnecessary (9) INCLUDING IN (stylish) + CLUe without the the last letter. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 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. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 00 EST. The 1,703 sq. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. Thanks, Chifonie Quiptic 1231 <<< Older Puzzles. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Found this extremely straightforward – favourites were 11ac and 8dn. . Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Guardian Quiptic 745 / Provis. Quiptic 1231. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 16 thoughts on “Independent 11,446 by Filbert”. Speedy, Everyman and Azed Email. Independent 11,446 by Filbert. Another superb Friday treat, this time from Alberich, thanks to whom for presenting a challenge that was equal parts fun as it was clever. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. It’s one of the occasional non-Rufus Mondays. Not over-taxing for a Tuesday, but plenty to admire and enjoy in this rather elegant composition. Clue: Wordplay: Entry: 7 . It is published on theguardian. The theme was evidently pi and I think the effort of trying to shoehorn pi into all the across answers made for some difficult clues. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 24 Comments. Across: 1: VANDAL: Person wantonly damaging property in museum close to Whitehall (6): V AND A (Victoria and Albert “museum”) + (whitehal)L: 5: BARONESS: Titled lady one’s seen in pubs (8): ONE’S seen in BARS (“pubs”): 9: WARRANTY: Bond guarded about angry tirade (8): WARY (“guarded”) about RANT (“angry tirade”): 10: BIG TOP:. I thought there were more doubtful clues than you normally see in the Independent. Excellent crossword from Morph today. Across; 1/15: IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: Pubic hair in settee removed with lint (not A1) – cynical excuse for tabloid exposé? (2,3,6,8) (PUBIC HAIR IN SETTEE + LINT – AI)* AInd: removed. Zillow has 41 photos of this $949,900 3 beds, 2 baths, 1,689 Square Feet condo home located at 1231 McKenzie St #6, Victoria, BC V8V 2W6 built in 2002. I found this a mixture of extremely easy clues and some quite tricky ones, solving time, 22 mins. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. Guardian Quiptic 1,184/Matilda. Thank you Monk. I was coming along fine until the last 5 clues which took me thrice as long as the rest of the puzzle. A very tough solve overall – glad there were some easier clues to get started. The theme here – female names – became apparent pretty swiftly, and many of the answers fell into place in short order. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. com. I found this a thoroughly decent puzzle. I don’t think this was one of Phi’s more inspired offerings; unless there is a theme I have missed, I suspect the construction started with the interlinking 11ac, 7dn and 21dn, which are three of the more original clues, but lots of the others were very standard fare with simple word breakdowns. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Today’s CrypticsIt’s been three months since we last saw Mass but again he has come up with a themed puzzle that provided a great deal of enjoyment, at least once 8A/2 had been solved. Some of the clues took a little while to parse (15ac took me a few minutes alone), but I got there in the end. Across: 1: GET AHEAD: Understand a source to make progress (3,5): GET + A + HEAD. The most Ximenean of the crowd in terms of wordplay but absolutely a horror when it comes to meaningful surfaces. Thanks to Vulcan. I got maybe 75% of this very quickly but the last few took a long time to finish, especially the SW corner. com For technical problems email userhelp@theguardian. A fairly easy puzzle today frrom Gurney. With hindsight everything was fair (if you have a good knowledge of Scottish geography, the first book of the Bible etc. That is still true here, but I think this one is a little more difficult. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. To those of you expecting a Dac crossword you should be aware that today is an important day in musical and operatic history. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Harder than usual for Phi – especially because of the title above. After several weeks of harder than average Everymans (or should that be Everymen?) we seem to have returned to normal with a very accessible puzzle, though one that was still a pleasure to solve. paddymelon. There’s an extra letter in every clue which has to be removed before solving. SHOPPING CENTRE. I made my way quickly through this puzzle. Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps. ACROSS: 9. 00 EST. This type of clue is one of the reasons that many solvers don’t appreciate Anto’s efforts at compiling a Quiptic puzzle. Set by: Matilda. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 10 Measurement of weight lost by jerk (5) ANKER wANKER (jerk) ‘losing’ w (weight) – an old liquid measure for wines and spirits. As easy as you’d expect on a Monday except for a few horticultural clues that were completely out of my areas of expertise, which had to wait until I had most of the checking letters and then required a bit of dictionary work to confirm once I’d had a guess from the wordplay. 00 EDT Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. You. The insertion indicator is ‘edged with’. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 24 Comments. Matilda appears comparatively infrequently as our Quiptic setter, but I always enjoy solving and blogging her puzzles. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Quiptic crossword No 1,246. Quiptic 821 by Provis. Across: 1: VANDAL: Person wantonly damaging property in museum close to Whitehall (6): V AND A (Victoria and Albert “museum”) + (whitehal)L: 5: BARONESS: Titled lady one’s seen in pubs (8) Across: 1: DOWNSWING: Experiencing the blues, big-band jazz club movement (9): DOWN (experiencing the blues) SWING (big-band jazz) 6: PUT UP: Build from either boundary? (3,2) cryptic def – palindrome Across; 7: SPOONFED: Given the dumbing down treatment, old-style court favoured initially by Miliband? SPOON = old-fashioned word meaning ‘court‘ (as a verb); F = favoured initially; ED = Miliband Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. I remember the Lonnie Donegan. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quiptic crossword No 1,201. Yet again Everyman has produced an accessible puzzle that is ideal for those new, or relatively new, to the art of solving cryptic crosswords. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. GK buffs will feel right at home with this puzzle which touches a range of domains like literature and biology and geography. MOON might have its third quarter replaced by that of LUNATION giving. Also, if you know the background or interests of the Independent crossword setters, you will not be surprised that a puzzle by Klingsor is the Independent offering today. Perfectly worded clues, credible surface readings, variety, and a satisfied solver at the end. Across: 1: AUTOMATIC PILOT: George, 8, is not used to land, of course (9,5): 8 down’s solution being ‘they say’, ‘George’ is the nickname for an aicraft’s automatic pilot.