2517: Final line-up
The unclued lights appeared at the start under the shaded squares reading row by row from top to bottom (two…
Fifty years of The Spectator crossword
by Tom Johnson aka Doc During the early spring of 1971, a package of eighteen unsolicited crosswords arrived in…
2511: Changing places
The 12 unclued lights (one of two words) are somehow paired and one solution in each pair is of a…
2508: Grovels
The unclued lights, (one pair, one hyphened and one of two words) are of a kind. One clue leads to…
2505: Endgame
The unclued lights (one hyphened) are of a kind, confirmed in Chambers. Elsewhere, ignore one accent. Across 1 I…
2502: Nay-sayers?
The unclued lights (two of two words) are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Across 4 High-handed relation in…
2500: 50 x 50
Each solution contains one letter at least once, always omitted in the cryptic wordplay of each clue. This letter and…
2498: Cross-country
The unclued lights are all non-words, but each can be resolved into a pair of thematic solutions. Across 1 Game…
2495: Contrary
Four unclued lights of a kind, one of two words with an apostrophe, include the theme word. The remaining unclued…
2492: Little man
Unusually this week, one unclued light includes the theme word which can also be linked with all the other unclued…
2489: Fade away
Each of the unclued lights, (four of two words), individually or as a pair can be linked with an unclued…
Spectator Christmas party
At the Spectator Christmas PARTY(90) the TREE (42D) has a FAIRY (22), a STAR (78) and TINSEL strewn around (41,…
2485: Triplets
The unclued lights (all but one either hyphened or of two words) share a distinctive feature. Across 1 Fun and…
2482: Perm all five
The unclued lights (one of two words) display a common feature, different in each case. Across 1 Fundamentalist group keeps…
2479: Shielded
The unclued lights (one of two words and one hyphened) are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Across 10 United…
2476: Playtime
The ten unclued lights (one of two words and hyphened) consist of two themes which can be resolved into five…
2473: May
The unclued lights (two of two words) are of a kind. Across 12 To make sense of Sun puzzle, many…
2470: Express route
The unclued lights from 1 Down to 44 are of a kind with 4 overrunning a barline into 22. Ignore…
2467: Girl talk
Ten of the eleven unclued lights are of a kind and consist of singleton of two words, three pairs and…
2464: Topsy-turvy
14 which is unclued below, but is clued elsewhere, has to be divided into three components (one a Spanish…
2461: Hot off?
The unclued lights (individually or four pairs) lead to a word or phrase which includes a thematic component. Across 1…
2458: Bardicarum
The unclued Across lights are of a kind, as are the associated Down ones. Across 1 Friendship revealed by American…
2455: Shadow boxing
The unclued lights (two of two words and one hyphened), individually or as three pairs are of a kind. The…
2452: Comme on dit
The unclued lights (five of two words and one of three) should be paired to reveal four expressions verifiable in…
2449: Stateless
Eight thematic words (one of two words), which solvers have to discover and whose two-letter abbreviations form the anagram I’M…
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