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A new IQ setter this week? Or is it one or more regular setters in disguise? Whoever it is – it is an extraordinarily daunting grid!

The preamble: “Each answer begins in the appropriately lettered/numbered cell. Answers to Region clues must be entered in an 8-cell path from cell to neighbouring cell, and a boundary must be drawn around each region: all regi...


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Mog provides the Tuesday challenge this week

Tuesday is theme day in the Independent cryptic puzzle series. Today’s theme is quite clear. I counted nine SWORDS in the grid as highlighted in the graphic below. Some of them I knew, but FALCHION and CURTANA were new to me.

I am not sure what the definition ...


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Alia provides the Tuesday puzzle.

I don’t time myself when solving puzzles, but if I did, I think this may have been one of my quickest ever solves. That doesn’t mean the puzzle was a bad one as it takes skill to make a puzzle as accessible as this one, and not every crossword needs be tortuously dfficult to be enjoyable. It may have been better as a Quiptic, t...


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Good fun, as usual, from Slormgorm . . .

I found myself repeatedly resorting to “whimsical” as a description for the clues, with a couple of the clues being so “whimsical” that I am not sure that I could give a proper parsing for them. Perhaps we will work these out in the comments.

ACROSS 1 BACK DOWN Support...

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This week’s puzzle called itself UnsurpassableI hadn’t come across Madrigal before, but I am relatively new to Spectator crosswords.  It was a quick and pleasant solve.

The rubric said:  the unclued lights (four of three words) provide a literary quotation, its speaker and its author.  The quotation turned out to be a famous one, the final words...


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