First thoughts this week were one of alarm. The three others in the grid are going to be impossible to find? On the other hand, 9 and 15A were ingenious. I have always assumed that recurrences of words is statistically inevitable and therefore no more than coincidence. The grid being distinctly odd looking, clues printed in a type small enough to lead to speculation on the need for stronger glasses, and the preamble. Pretty tricky, even by this setter’s standards, and my mind is still a little boggled by 28ac – “drawing” as a reversal indicator? 19ac raised a smile – “Too great a toll? On that basis I decided, in the words of Roger Murtaugh, that “I’m gettin’ too old for this shit”, folded the paper up, put it on the recycling pile, and got on with the day’s other concerns. Having agonised over the clue for a while I think it’s sort of clear that the answer is BLOOMERS and not BLOOPERS, but it’s one where the poor solver could be forgiven for jumping the wrong way. 15 cells, presumably being parts of “They seek him here, the seek him there, etc”. Pretty straightforward, the only slight bother I had was the parsing of 21d, which was my LOI, but that is just because the clue was so well done, as ever with Raich, as was the crossword as a whole. Beyond the fact that it’s invariably thematic, the Tuesday crossword in the i is unpredictable, and there’s no knowing whether one will be faced with something fiendish or, as today, a congenial stroll over gentle terrain. And that I indeed spotted the extra words, and thought 21ac very neatly done with Dunkirk and Bader pointing you towards exactly the wrong sort of fly, this one being flightless, apparently, a misnomer if I ever saw one. Handily, it was at this point that I found I’d lobbed in an S rather than E at the end of AREOLAE, explaining also why I’d failed spectacularly to parse the clue. Best Daily Cryptic Crossword. Making possibly the on-the-face-of-it seemingly impossible. Answers can be provided for each individual word or the entire puzzle and the crossword is printable. And fun? Oh well, tomorrow’s Inquisitor should provide some light relief. I suspect that Eimi, if he does check, takes the comments on Fifteensquared with a big pinch of salt. To June 2016 for all the answers and parsing of the clues: http://www.fifteensquared.net/2016/06/12/independent-on-sunday-1373-raich/. So nicely judged by the crossword editor. I needed help – a lot of it – throughout my solve, and when all the answers were in I still had a number of clues unparsed, such as OPAL and TEAS. Heigh ho, it’s Monk no I didn’t finish this one and looking over the other side, I could see why.
Not sure that I can recall any offering from Nimrod that would merit his being cast into outer darkness.
Well, I thought so anyway. A free daily cryptic crossword that's not too difficult - just right for your coffee break. I think Denzo makes a good point. Bit of a bish today: there is a theme and rather an amusing one at that, but it’s utterly opaque owing to the omission of an essential part of six across clues. I like highlighting. Player support. Oh well, I did get there eventually and would certainly rather have Monk’s creativity than a puzzle that was merely ‘safe’. But oh how I struggled to get a foothold in the South west! But it was out of place in a mainstream daily. Elsewhere I couldn’t work out what was going on at 23ac, but a quick Google would have sorted that for those unable to conjure up the answer. Advertisement. There, that wasn’t too fierce, was it? (Yes, I know, I didn’t think so either). Monk bowled us some humdingers today – bags of clever invention in those deliveries. Nothing else really to comment on, except to say that this was a lovely little puzzle to end the working week. After the comments in 225 I am surprised and somewhat annoyed that the editor chose to recycle this puzzle. But… EATS and STAR nice and easy, and, look, we have lots of checking letters in the others, because they really don’t seem to utilise that many. There’s a Nina in the left and right columns which meant nothing to me, but a quick Google will reveal all, and perhaps the smattering of a ghost theme. Games home Best Daily Cryptic Crossword. The comments on 225 were at best luke-warm, with some regular and respected commentors who are experienced solvers not completing it. Best Daily Cryptic Crossword … The form of the clue was fairly straightforward and the anagram seemed pretty clear – but I needed a good fair few of the crossing letters before I got it. And one of the joys of being a parent was reading it aloud some twenty-five or thirty years later.
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