I alluded in the previous post to Independent & Tele Toughie puzzles appearing this week. It’s the Indy today – needed to check it online as I couldn’t remember which puzzle it was! It’s here: http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/puzzles/crosswords/cryptic/ (if you enjoy solving online, please bookmark that page for the daily puzzle).
Remember, Elkamere appears in the Telegraph on Thursday. If you can’t get the paper – and while technical problems persist with the online version – PDFs of the day’s puzzles are being made available on Big Dave’s Crossword Blog: http://bigdave44.com/
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Good grief Anax, there are some spectacularly dodgy clues in today’s imnsho.
Great fun – even if it took me ages. I was hoping as I ‘got’ and laughed very loudly at 1a on my way back from the printer that it might be slightly kinder Anax but…..!! Thanks for the great crossword.
For this one, Sue, I really was in two minds. I hoped that spotting a couple of the 1234/1234 patterns would make solvers suspicious enough to look for similar symmetrically placed patterns – those (hopefully) might offer cross-checking letters even if they weren’t for full answers, so I could possibly get away with slightly harder clues for answers intersecting those.
As Ali has already said on 225, the ‘trick’ did put a constraint on the grid and the result was a couple of unfamiliar words, so I tried to ease back a little on the difficulty… at least for those!
Gordon Bennet, Mr Mayer – I thought Elkamere was supposed to be friendlier Anax – a frustratingly grand fight – lots of favourites but I did specially like 27a and 2d. Thanks for the great brain stretching.