Lavatch

2642: A cipher to decode

24 February 2024 9:00 am

2638: Capital fellow

27 January 2024 9:00 am

2632: Troublesome situation

25 November 2023 9:00 am

2629: Urban renewal

4 November 2023 9:00 am

2620: The right name?

2 September 2023 9:00 am

2614: Monkey business

22 July 2023 9:00 am

Unclued lights (one of three words and one of two words, singly or paired) form three groups. Group 1 is three…

2602: Rolling Stones

29 April 2023 9:00 am

2593: Capital Development

25 February 2023 9:00 am

Six unclued lights (one of two words) are of a kind. The remaining three must be filled to display what…

Birthday Boy

17 December 2022 9:00 am

Two unclued lights are a title (three words) and its creator (two words). Remaining unclued lights are four names and…

2581: In the balance

12 November 2022 9:00 am

2572: Blown up

10 September 2022 9:00 am

Around the perimeter, beginning at square 1, is a line of poetry (seven words, in ODQ) followed by the title…

2563: Areas for development

9 July 2022 9:00 am

11 Across (two words) suggests the other unclued lights, which are all one-word anagrams of words of a kind (one…

2554: Going, going…

7 May 2022 9:00 am

The unclued lights, including one of two words, are of a kind, all confirmed in Chambers. A further example (4)…

2545: With a twist

5 March 2022 9:00 am

41 (four words) suggests the other unclued lights – which are individual examples (not group names) of a kind –…

2536: At rest

11 December 2021 9:00 am

Unclued lights are three sets of three words of a kind, along with a name which connects them all (two…

2527: The main dilemma

9 October 2021 9:00 am

Three unclued lights together form an eight-word question from a well-known song. The song’s protagonist suggests the other five unclued…

2518: Make a run for it?

7 August 2021 9:00 am

11 Across (three words) is a phrase suggested by the puzzle’s title explaining how to arrive at the other unclued…

2509: Current description

5 June 2021 9:00 am

A six-word ‘current description’ (in ODQ) and the name of the author (three words) run clockwise round the perimeter starting…

2499: Entitled trio

27 March 2021 9:00 am

The unclued lights, including three proper nouns (two of two words), consist of three groups of three words of a…

2490: Arrangement

23 January 2021 9:00 am

The unclued lights are all words of a kind arranged into anagrams (all are confirmed in Chambers: one is a…

2481: Octet

31 October 2020 9:00 am

19 across (two words) is commonly associated with an octet. Each member of the octet defines one further unclued light.…

2472: All-inclusive

29 August 2020 9:00 am

An 11-word quotation (in ODQ) reads clockwise around the perimeter from square 1. Other unclued lights are names of a…

2463: Tongue twisters

27 June 2020 9:00 am

The unclued lights are of a kind and are entered in the grid in a thematically appropriate manner. Across 11…