Crossword

2407: Stickmen

11 May 2019 9:00 am

The unclued lights, four of two words, individually or as a pair, are of a kind.   Across 11    After…

2406: Heptad

4 May 2019 9:00 am

Clockwise round the grid from 6 run the names (9,5,7,6,8,7,8) of the leading members of a group. The unchecked and…

2405: Satanic

27 April 2019 9:00 am

Doc writes: welcome to Smurf as our third new compiler joining our team.  One unclued light, the heart of which…

2404: 1+2 = 3+4

20 April 2019 9:00 am

The unclued lights (one of two words) share a feature, different in each case, and one is a past participle.…

2403: Hexad

13 April 2019 9:00 am

The second and fourth letters of six unclued lights (defined by surplus single words in six clues) form a set…

2402: Test pilots

6 April 2019 9:00 am

Eight unclued entries are of a kind. A 9-letter word for their position must be highlighted in the grid.  …

2401: Sign here please

30 March 2019 9:00 am

The unclued lights are of a kind and all have to be ignored in the completed grid.   Across 1   …

2400: Unclued

23 March 2019 9:00 am

All unclued entries are, unusually, not all unclued; all are different and there are no proper nouns. A repeated cryptic…

2399: Lines of work

16 March 2019 9:00 am

Eight unclued entries (two of two words, one hyphened) form a folk rhyme used as the basis for the first…

2398: All steamed up

9 March 2019 9:00 am

The unclued lights (five of two words, two pairs and a singleton) are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer.  …

2397: Obit V

2 March 2019 9:00 am

We recently lost a fine 13, whose legacy includes 10 (two words) and 9 (two words), and four other unclued…

2396: Reader…,

23 February 2019 9:00 am

Unclued lights are a set of literary 40s. Their creator is hidden in the grid and should be shaded. Elsewhere,…

2395: Concise crossword

16 February 2019 9:00 am

The seven clues below have to be interpreted cryptically and are then entered in the grid where they will fit.…

2394: Opening time

9 February 2019 9:00 am

The first three or four letters of eight unclued lights (including one proper name) form a set said to be…

2393: Monster Mash-up

2 February 2019 9:00 am

1D (two words) 15 10 26 né 21 died on 2 February. Most famous for 7A 37 and 14, he…

2392: Beknighted

26 January 2019 9:00 am

The unclued lights, two of two words and the remainder when paired, are of a kind.   Across 1    No…

Stout and bubbly

19 January 2019 9:00 am

According to Brewer, a five-word phrase was used to describe a creature, but applies also to a three-word fictional character.…

2390: Tea shop

12 January 2019 9:00 am

Unclued lights, all confirmed in Chambers or Collins, are three sets of four words of a kind, each set relating…

2389: All change

5 January 2019 9:00 am

The unclued lights can be paired in some way or other. One is of two words.   Across 1    Distrain…

2388: Sea rocket

8 December 2018 9:00 am

‘12/15’ (six words in total) is a quotation (in ODQ) suggested by the remaining unclued lights (two hyphened), whose fifth…

2387: On the spot

1 December 2018 9:00 am

Two unclued lights give the name of a location and another a means of arrival and -departure. Other unclued lights…

2386: Outside what we know

24 November 2018 9:00 am

Three unclued lights featured the remaining ones, two of two words, the others paired. Two of them do double duty.…

2385: R and R

17 November 2018 9:00 am

The theme is two historic people who were contemporaries. Unclued lights give their forenames, places of birth and death and…

2384: Bang!

10 November 2018 9:00 am

Unclued lights, singly or correctly paired, are of a kind, as given in Chambers. Ignore one apostrophe.   Across 5   …

2383: Flagged

3 November 2018 9:00 am

The unclued lights, one of two words, and the others when paired are of a kind. One individual unclued light…