Category : Crosswords

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...

Annotated solutions for Prize 29,177

Follow the methodology behind Prize crossword 29,177Clues are in alphabetical order of their solutions, which are fitted in the grid, jigsaw-wise.A Another Fine Mess: FIRST NAME ONE SHE (anag) [Oliver & Hardy short film] Continue reading...

Annotated solutions for Prize 29,171

Follow the methodology behind Prize crossword 29,1711 helical: HE + I CALL (anag) Continue reading...

Annotated solutions for Prize 29,165

Follow the methodology behind Prize crossword 29,1659 plate P<L(atvia)>ATE Continue reading...

Annotated solutions for Prize 29,159

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...

Annotated solutions for Genius 242

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...

Annotated solutions for Prize 29,153

Follow the methodology behind Prize crossword 29,1531 sugar snap SUGARS NAP Continue reading...

Annotated solutions for Genius 241

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...

Azed slip No 2,663

SONDAGE1 R. J. Heald: Use of lead perhaps means dog ignoring master needs training (anag. less M; lead2 = plummet for sounding). Continue reading...

Azed slip No 2,659

ARITHMOMANIA1 P. A. Stephenson: Treating a mathematical neurosis may make this less acute (comp. anag. & lit.). Continue reading...

Annotated solutions for Genius 240

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)&...

Annotated solutions for Genius 239

Follow the methodology behind Genius 239Each clue prefaced by a number in square brackets provides a cryptic indication of a word (minus a single letter) from a well-known poem (not further defined). Its solution was to be entered without this letter...