A really good challenge this week with some cracking if tricky clues.
Many thanks Mynot.
One small editing grumble - two clues should be marked as hyphenated....
Great fun and having different formats for clues kept me on my toes. Not a theme I knew well but with the internet it's not too much of a problem. What would we do without it? Thanks Samuel. What has...
I enjoyed this puzzle and it kept me gripped right to the end but I do have some moans on editing: Bar missing from penultimate row 5d should be marked as 2 words 39a should be marked as hyphenated...
Very early finish today for me today mainly because I guessed the theme early on to 16a. I'm not sure how difficult this would have been otherwise. Clues were not challenging although it's a nice...
Nothing too challenging in today's EV. Rather disappointing for me. A gripe gathering momentum for me is that I am all too often having to refer to my earlier Chambers to confirm meanings of proper...
A good solid EV although I more or less had to get the four answers before I worked out how their clues worked as the 17 letters only helped after the event. Very enjoyable, although it would have...
Happy Christmas EVers. Unusually no postings for this puzzle so far. Perhaps we do have lives beyond the EV after all and we are all busy doing Christmassy things. However I did have some time this...
I thoroughly get (I think) all of this crossword except, and probably vitally, completing the blanked off area for which I have a couple of equally appropriate words. There seems to be no way to...
Thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle. Lots going on a the same time - jumbles, extra letters, quotes and highlighting. Really kept me on my toes all the way through. I particularly liked the clear and...
Very surprised not to have a link to this opened already. Is everybody else stuck like me? It was a pleasant surprise at first not to have to find the usual extra letters but the clues were on the...
Hello EVers, I had no knowledge of this theme and also didn't have the biographical dictionary recommended but it wasn't difficult to find on the web. This poses a problem for setters nowadays - do...
Hello EVers, Pleased to have finished this puzzle in good time as I'm out to lunch today. All very fair but once you have the theme everything falls into place far too quickly. Last week Devadolly won...
An excellent puzzle. Although I had the grid filled fairly quickly it took quite a while before I made any sense of the preamble.
A delight - thanks Shark....
Straightforward puzzle with no real difficuties. I know I'm a pedant but I make it that 15 answers produce new words however I have made mistakes with my addition before. Not too much of a...
This puzzle is a real challenge and I think it might just defeat me despite having had a full grid for some time. I'm just not getting how to replace the 10 + 2 letters at all. Perhaps a break might...
Surely preamble should state that replacements for parts of answers to 20 clues are forms of 26 across? However an entirely straightforward and unchallenging puzzle a tad on the easy side for an EV.