by Admin - 7 months ago
Some tall culinary tales in our pick of the best of the broadsheets’ cryptic cluesIn the sample clues below, the links take you to explainers from our beginners series. The setter’s name often links to an interview with him or her, in case you feel l...
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by Admin - 8 months ago
Follow the methodology behind Prize crossword 29,1659 plate P<L(atvia)>ATE Continue reading...
by Admin - 8 months ago
Follow the methodology behind Prize crossword 29,159* Theme words (not further defined) are rivers; one river has to be added to the wordplay in 30 clues; two are needed in three more clues; and four are solutions. Continue reading...
by Admin - 8 months ago
We continue the second half of our interviews with letters of the alphabet about what they get up to in cryptic cluesYou’ve met A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M and N. Now it’s time for the various rounded vowels represented by the letter O.Hell...
by Admin - 8 months ago
Click here to access the print versionWordplay in each Across clue contains a superfluous letter. In clue order, these letters spell out an instruction to be applied to two additional words in the grid, creating 12 new words, for the final solution t...
by Admin - 8 months ago
Follow the methodology behind Genius 242Each letter of the alphabet appears at least once at the end of the solutions to the clues, which are to be fitted in the grid jigsaw-wise wherever they will go.X American SI<O(xford)/U(ni)>X Continue rea...
by Admin - 8 months ago
Follow the methodology behind Prize crossword 29,1531 sugar snap SUGARS NAP Continue reading...
by Admin - 9 months ago
Follow the methodology behind Genius 241* A word of at least two letters (indicated in bold below) had to be removed from each clue before solving and fitting the solutions in the grid. These words, in order of their clues’ grid position, are the 10...
by Admin - 9 months ago
SONDAGE1 R. J. Heald: Use of lead perhaps means dog ignoring master needs training (anag. less M; lead2 = plummet for sounding). Continue reading...
by Admin - 9 months ago
ARITHMOMANIA1 P. A. Stephenson: Treating a mathematical neurosis may make this less acute (comp. anag. & lit.). Continue reading...
by Admin - 10 months ago
Follow the methodology behind Genius 240* in the completed grid the first letters of the solutions in numbered order run from A to Zcitadels D(ate) in ELASTIC (anag)russet (t)RUSS/E(nergy)/(pu)Tneurones N(ationalist)<RUE(rev)>ONESneeps N(orth)&...