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Thanks Paul – this was an enjoyable struggle, with some tricky parsing to work through afterwards. My favourites were 15ac, 3/24, and 5dn.
ACROSS 1 FLATTENED Coffee back in canteen, provided cups laid out (9) for definition e.g. in a fight, to lay someone out / to knock someone unconscious / to flatten someoneLATTE=type of “Coffee”, plus the ...
Tack appears a few times a year in the Independent, but hasn’t landed in my blogging rota slot until now. The original puzzle is at https://puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/cryptic-crossword-independent/?puzzleDate=20260910
A typically fun puzzle from Slormgorm today.
Enjoyable and mostly not too taxing, I found. A little head-scratching required over some of the more oblique definitions but all made sense in the end. Thanks, Slormgorm!
ACROSS 1 OFF-WHITE Sour, very pure cream? (3-5) OFF (sour) + WHITE (very pure) 5 OBTAIN Get old black and brown trousers...“Each clue is actually two clues run together. Either entry may be clued first; punctuation may mislead. Some answers are too short for their slots, and several others require two letters to occupy one cell; all enumerations count cells available. Cells in the latter group must each be divided by a diagonal line in a consistent way, entering one letter in each half such that ...
A tricky tribute puzzle.
IO always sets a tough challenge. This morning’s grid contains quite a few new terms to me, but I do think they are fairly clued. Many thanks to IO, and well done to anyone who has attempted, or completed this.
And of course, RIP Jeremy Mutch.