Crossword

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.…

2480: Warning

24 October 2020 9:00 am

Solvers should heed a warning when deducing ten symmetrically placed unclued lights (two of three words and one of two…

2479: Shielded

17 October 2020 9:00 am

The unclued lights (one of two words and one hyphened) are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Across 10 United…

2478: Namesakes

10 October 2020 9:00 am

Clockwise round the grid from 3 run three song titles (totalling 13 words) with 3D/16 (five words in all) giving…

2477: Rendezvous

3 October 2020 9:00 am

The unclued entries, all across, are unconnected words from Chambers. Each requires a letter added to render them thematic, and…

2476: Playtime

26 September 2020 9:00 am

The ten unclued lights (one of two words and hyphened) consist of two themes which can be resolved into five…

2475: Poem VI

19 September 2020 9:00 am

Unclued lights are ten words taken from a poem quoted in ODQ. The poet’s name (two words) will appear diagonally…

2474: Love me do

12 September 2020 9:00 am

31 3 worked for the 43 of 21. The 43 of 34 got him for 24 35 and sent him…

2473: May

5 September 2020 9:00 am

The unclued lights (two of two words) are of a kind. Across 12 To make sense of Sun puzzle, many…

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…

2471: Inky

22 August 2020 9:00 am

The unclued lights can be associated with an undisclosed quality. All associations can be found in Brewer and/or Chambers. Alphabetical…

2470: Express route

15 August 2020 9:00 am

The unclued lights from 1 Down to 44 are of a kind with 4 overrunning a barline into 22. Ignore…

2469: Breadth

8 August 2020 9:00 am

Unclued lights are anagrams of Shakespearean characters. These lights are defined by surplus words in eight clues. Across 1 Recreational…

2468: Noah entry?

1 August 2020 9:00 am

Eighteen clues contain deficient wordplay, the missing elements of which, when highlighted, confirm the theme.   Across 1 Party with…

2467: Girl talk

25 July 2020 9:00 am

Ten of the eleven unclued lights are of a kind and consist of singleton of two words, three pairs and…

2466: Gender bender

18 July 2020 9:00 am

Clockwise round the grid from 11 run, in chronological order, the titles (7,7,7,9,2,8,2,10) of five works by an author whose…

2465: Definitely amusing

11 July 2020 9:00 am

Unclued lights (three of two words, two hyphened) have something in common, verifiable in Brewer. Across 4 Everybody agreed to…

2464: Topsy-turvy

4 July 2020 9:00 am

  14 which is unclued below, but is clued elsewhere, has to be divided into three components (one a Spanish…

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…

2462: Over and Out?

20 June 2020 9:00 am

The seventeen entries with definition-only clues are to be treated according to a symmetrically disposed theme which has to be…

2461: Hot off?

13 June 2020 9:00 am

The unclued lights (individually or four pairs) lead to a word or phrase which includes a thematic component. Across 1…

2460: Sleaze

6 June 2020 9:00 am

The same word appears as seven headwords in Chambers. Unclued lights (including two pairs and one of three words, one…

2459: 22 Down

30 May 2020 9:00 am

Six unclued entries (three of three words, and one of two words) can be combined to make a quotation (in…

2458: Bardicarum

23 May 2020 9:00 am

The unclued Across lights are of a kind, as are the associated Down ones. Across 1 Friendship revealed by American…

2457: Beginning

16 May 2020 9:00 am

Unclued lights (including one of two words) suggest a section of a sequence whose final member will appear in the…