A pleasant Sunday morning puzzle; one I don't think will trouble our regulars too much. The setter's advice on the use of a pencil for the first grid filling is superfluous to me as I always do the EV...
Do I get to call firsties this week? I thought this was a nice puzzle. It was a lot easier to get the keyword than I thought it might be, and once you have that everything falls into place pretty...
Today's Crossword 'Chariot' set by Dumpynose can be found
on page 51 via this link
http://thespectator.n...om/epaper/viewer.aspx
An enjoyable puzzle solved with the help of a Cuppa....
Another reasonably straightforward grid fill with the 'clusters' becoming apparent early on.
Enjoyable but possibly not the challenge we expect for a Bank Holiday puzzle....
I guess you will all find this extremely easy. A welcoming relief from the Listener that's for sure. So in a way nice one Glow-worm.
Not too much to tackle here today folks!...
A nice challenge and a clever construction, but as you can see, a quick finish. I'm interested to know whether others see what to do before or after discerning the 10 letter word. Cheers to Pointer,...
A fine piece of craftsmanship from Schadenfreude: I especially like the fact that "altered words consist only of real words" after a few recently that have included gibberish in the finished...
Good Afternoon all N & Cer's. Wish it had been Salamanca last week when I was stranded without the benefit of the BRB or other tatty tomes!! Did manage to finish last week's but only after my...
In a way typical of what we expect from Dipper, although harder than recent efforts. Initially a quick start developed into a much slower finish. I enjoyed tracking down the herbs but I thought the...
Good Morning.
Here is a link to 'Racketeers' set by Doc.
http://thespectator.n...om/epaper/viewer.aspx
It can be found on page 51.
Ideally this puzzle should have been published a month ago....
Good afternoon Mr. and Mrs. UK and all ships at sea.... I thought this was a perfectly fine puzzle, not an earth-shattering PDM but solidly constructed nonetheless. And and am I wrong in seeing an...
After part of the theme dawned on me half way through filling in the grid, i was thinking we were in for another stale ending. Luckily the ending took a fair amount of decoding, and it was very...
A much bigger challenge, I thought this week, with some very clever plays involved in creating the group members. Lots of lovely pennies dropping all the way through. I'd be interested to see how soon...
I know that this composer is a bete noire for some of us, but this particular offering is accessible: do have a go at it, it's very rewarding. There's some delightful cluing, amusing in parts - and...
This is a link to Spectator 1971 : Song V11 set by Dumpynose http://thespectator.n...om/epaper/viewer.aspx It can be found on page 59. I enjoyed it as there was a bit more to it than the last few...
All very quiet today - surely you have not all started watching football - or maybe you have left the country? Slow progress today, about 3/4 done on the grid and not making much progress on the theme...