Crossword

2157: Song X

12 April 2014 9:00 am

Round the perimeter clockwise from 1 run six lights of a kind (7,9,10,9,9,8): if the grid were a 13/12, they…

2156: Shoreline

5 April 2014 9:00 am

Seven items of a kind read clockwise round the perimeter. In ten clues, cryptic indications omit reference to parts of…

2155: Poor Billy’s left out

29 March 2014 9:00 am

The unclued lights (two must be paired) are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer.   Across 10   Details from Britain…

2154: Clickety click

22 March 2014 9:00 am

This puzzle marks the 40 of a 33 29. 16A, 24 and 1D (four words) are three of his works.…

2153: Selling

15 March 2014 9:00 am

Each of thirteen clues contains one misprinted letter in the definition part. Corrections of misprints spell a phrase involving a…

2152: T20 – it’s just not cricket!

8 March 2014 9:00 am

The unclued lights (and 4 Down + N) are of a kind and along with the suggestion given by the…

2151: Sources

1 March 2014 9:00 am

Three theme words which must be deduced each suggest three unclued lights (including one of two words and ignoring one…

2150: Content

22 February 2014 9:00 am

Each of thirteen clues contains a superfluous word. Initial letters of these words spell the first four words of a…

2149: Super!

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Each of the unclued lights (one of two words and one of three) can be preceded by the same word…

2148: Eighth of February

8 February 2014 9:00 am

Unclued lights (including two of two words and an accent to be ignored) can be expressed in such a way…

2147: Amazing performance

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Each of the 22 across solutions, in clue order, contributes one unchecked letter to a two-word phrase (13,9) in Chambers…

2146: 4 ÷ 4 = 8

25 January 2014 9:00 am

The unclued four-letter words can be paired in a particular way to form the remaining unclued lights (one of two…

2145: Two in a row

18 January 2014 9:00 am

Unclued lights form four thematic pairs, one of which combines to form a single word.   Across   1    Working…

2144: Leonids

11 January 2014 9:00 am

1D is the title of a work minus a word that is suggested by three further unclued lights. Other unclued…

2143: Revising geography

4 January 2014 9:00 am

The unclued lights are broadly of a kind (33 differs from the others, though 33K would have been more appropriate,…

Cold Comfort

14 December 2013 9:00 am

Five Christmas carols (5, 6, 5, 3 and 4 words respectively) have been re-arranged, and re-titled at 23/38 (4 words),…

2142: Wintry

7 December 2013 9:00 am

Each of seventeen clues comprises a definition part and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter.…

2141: Megacant

30 November 2013 9:00 am

The unclued lights (all but two of two words) are of a kind, listed in Chambers 2011. Elsewhere, ignore one…

2140: Essex Man

23 November 2013 9:00 am

Our hero must be revealed by shading six cells appropriately. Four unclued lights are key words in 11s featuring the…

2139: Separated

16 November 2013 9:00 am

Nine unclued lights can be separated into three groups; each group consists of three definitions of one of three words…

2138: Hundred centimes

9 November 2013 9:00 am

The unclued lights, across and down respectively, are of a kind, all verifiable in Chambers.   Across   4 Single…

2137: Speculation

2 November 2013 9:00 am

Each of two associated words is suggested by four unclued lights (one of two words). Elsewhere, ignore an accent.  …

2136: Howdunit

26 October 2013 9:00 am

Six of the unclued entries (one of three words, three of two words and one hyphened; all in Chambers apart…

2135: Strange

19 October 2013 9:00 am

The unclued lights are of a kind.   Across   1    Remains close to the co-founder of the Townswomen’s…

2134: Mere letters

12 October 2013 9:00 am

Each unclued across light can be paired with a down one (one hyphened). Each member of a pair is an…