Category : Crosswords

by Buzzers - 4 days ago

Azed crossword 2,701

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by Buzzers - 4 days ago

Observer killer sudoku

Click here to access the print version. Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within grey lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by grey lines. Continue reading...

by Buzzers - 1 week ago

Did you solve it? Lewis Carroll for insomniacs

The answers to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set these puzzles by Lewis Carroll, who as well as writing books like Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was also a prolific puzzle setter.1. The Chelsea Pensioners Continue reading...

by Buzzers - 1 week ago

Crossword roundup: the words of 2023

They’re sometimes peculiar, but do the various dictionaries’ words of the year pass the Crossword Test?In 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 he...

by Buzzers - 2 weeks ago

Crossword roundup: where Abba meet the RNLI

An anniversary is celebrated and the word ‘biannual’ is shunned in our pick of the best of the broadsheetsIn 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...

by Buzzers - 3 weeks ago

Crossword book club: Clutterbuck by Benn Levy

A crossword-featuring comedy by a playwright who was also an MP, spy and campaigner. And he wrote the dialogue for the first British talkie …Clutterbuck was first performed at Wyndham’s Theatre, London, in 1946. It seems that there were perhaps five...

by Buzzers - 3 weeks ago

Genius crossword No 249

The two (similar) unclued entries are cryptically different and must be entered thematically. These indicate treatment required in all other clues of either the answer before entry or a single word (not in the definition) before solving.Click here to...

by Buzzers - 1 month ago

Crossword roundup: from Waterloo to Peterloo

We look at historical events that may or may not have a place in puzzles 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...