Having dealt with a few of Anto’s earlier puzzles in this slot, I was pleasantly surprised when the first few entries went in more or less. Tougher than Falcon’s usual, with all his elegance and breadth of references. Favourites 9ac, 12ac, 15ac, 25ac, 7dn, 8dn, and 17dn. Greetings earthlings! I’ve managed to resurface after something of a blogging exile – it turned out that the rehab clinic wouldn’t allow me wi-fi access during my (longer than anticipated) stay. Fairly straightforward puzzle, I thought – solving time, 16 mins * = anagram < = reversed. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Perfectly worded clues, credible surface readings, variety, and a satisfied solver at the end. Solving time: 34 mins * = anagram. It took me a long time, but that was because it was good and difficult, and the delay was almost entirely the result of my own incompetence. Another Quiptic from Bartland, who’s become a regular in this slot over the past year or so. Quick, Cryptic, Prize, Quiptic and Genius Email guardian. : 10: BRUCE – CURB< + E[nglishman]. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. A good Quiptic-level puzzle, with mostly straightforward constructions and nothing too obscure. It’s been a while since we had an FT Monday crossword. 11 With stylish clue, pretty much doing nothing unnecessary (9) INCLUDING IN (stylish) + CLUe without the the last letter. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. August 10, 2015 by newmarketsausage. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 22 Comments. : 10: men at arms – (smart name)*. How true! Visiting family and friends, a blog, and then – a crossword in the same style by the same setter, and to top it, a clue verbatim from yesterday and a definition used twice, as happened yesterday. Quiptic crossword No 1,220. Quiptic 815 by Anto. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. This has all I’ve learnt to expect from a Phi puzzle. 16 thoughts on “Independent 11,446 by Filbert”. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. with a rod and line; and 2nd: The space, measured in degrees, between two intersecting lines is an obtuse one when it is more than 90 degrees. Learn how your comment data is processed. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 24 Comments. Across: 1: AUTOMATIC PILOT: George, 8, is not used to land, of course (9,5): 8 down’s solution being ‘they say’, ‘George’ is the nickname for an aicraft’s automatic pilot. 25A is quite brilliant, and there’s a self-referential clue at 19A (the setter Everyman is the same as Falcon). The Guardian. 5 LIBE (RA) L. A puzzle which would almost have been perfect for beginners…. with a theme around drugs including the surfaces of 13ac and 5dn, as well as UPPER, SEDATES, TAB[let], HORSE=heroin, PILLS, BLOW/SNOW=cocaine, RAINBOW=LSD, TEA/POT, GRASS, HASH BROWNIES, DOPE, DUST… any more? Bartland is inviting you to replace the first T in TWITTER with an S. 7 RO UGH OR< 9 M (INNESOT) AN (tension)*A good puzzle. After a slow start I unravelled most of it, but with some very dull moments like solving clues but forgetting they had to go into the grid (especially OCTET), not understanding wordplays (DRAY), not spotting anagram fodder (ARTISTS IN. GK buffs will feel right at home with this puzzle which touches a range of domains like literature and biology and geography. Across: 1: SPINOZA: 2’s handling of media with lightweight article SPIN (handling of media) + OZ (ounce) + A = Baruch Spinoza , a 17C Dutch PhilosopherThis was pretty much the opposite experience of the Raich puzzle with the World Cup theme. Defn: Those who scale great heights, eg. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Contact the crossword editors. Solving time 1:03:33. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. There may be a couple of old chestnuts (e. 1. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. I've been spending most tube journeys recently teaching my daughter, mostly using the FT. November 20, 2023 by Pierre. There’s a theme involving characters from the TV series M*A*S*H, who are collected up in the final clue. A second outing for Anto in the Quiptic slot. 1 HALV(e) AH Pleased to work out a new word from the clear wordplay. Oh good, another Filbert only seems like yesterday, well last Sunday, I did one of his here and on he was on Thursday too. No printing errors! At least none that I can see, thank you to whoever has taken up the challenge. Newer Puzzles >>> The Guardian is one of the world’s leading English. The setter is asking you to ‘distribute’ the letters AID in a random way ‘through’ the letters C, N and D. The show began in 1978 on BBC1 and was one of the longest-running. DISCO (dance) M (male) FORT (garrison) 10 Trucks run out, leaving roads UTES ROUTES (roads) minus RO (run out). Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Across: 1: VANDAL: Person wantonly damaging property in museum close to Whitehall (6): V AND A (Victoria and Albert “museum”) + (whitehal)L: 5: BARONESS: Titled lady one’s seen in pubs (8) Across: 1: DOWNSWING: Experiencing the blues, big-band jazz club movement (9): DOWN (experiencing the blues) SWING (big-band jazz) 6: PUT UP: Build from either boundary? (3,2) cryptic def – palindrome Across; 7: SPOONFED: Given the dumbing down treatment, old-style court favoured initially by Miliband? SPOON = old-fashioned word meaning ‘court‘ (as a verb); F = favoured initially; ED = Miliband Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. The first Saturday in December, and the virtual advent calendar comprising Independent crosswords brings a puzzle from Tyrus. Flitwick, one of the latest additions to the Indy compiling team, has provided this week’s Wednesday puzzle. I cannot overstate how important the Torquemada/Ximenes/Azed tradition is in the history of crosswords. This is an extremely popular crossword puzzle in which for sure you will pass some great time and also keep your brain sharp with all the interesting crossword clues found on each day on The Guardian Quiptic Crossword puzzles. Chandler has set a fair Quiptic. : 10: BRUCE – CURB< + E[nglishman]. 7 PHI Hidden. 10 thoughts on “Independent on Sunday, 1,224 – Kairos”. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 24 Comments. Monday and it’s Filbert again, never an easy task from a blogging point of view. 31 across, perhaps because the surfaces of some of the others felt a bit contrived. This home was built in 1980 and last sold on. g. Guardian Quiptic 1,228/Matilda. It is published on. One of those puzzles where the parsing took as much time as the solving did for many clues, if not longer. Found this extremely straightforward – favourites were 11ac and 8dn. with a theme around drugs including the surfaces of 13ac and 5dn, as well as UPPER, SEDATES, TAB[let], HORSE=heroin, PILLS, BLOW/SNOW=cocaine, RAINBOW=LSD, TEA/POT, GRASS, HASH BROWNIES, DOPE, DUST… any more?Today’s Hamilton is surrounded by drama… Apologies for late posting. Sun 29 Oct 2023 20. My clue of the week is 3d (CAGE) and I also would pick out 5d (LITERATE). This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Valentine @11: There is a gentle sit-com on Radio 4 called ‘To Hull and Back’ by Lucy Beaumont also starring the great Maureen Lipman of that parish. I haven’t done a crossword since the end of May as I’ve been sailing round Britain in a 35 foot yacht (you can see my blog of the trip here if you are interested). Across; 1: VERBAL: hidden in oVERBALance: 5: PERISHED: PERI + SHED: 9: STRAIGHT: double definition: 10,29: BREATHTAKING: &Lit: 12: HONORARY: NOR (and not) in HOARY. Red colouring stuff disguised a lino stain, old, I got rid of (8) : SANTALIN (A LINO STAIN)* less O[ld] and (one occurrence of) I. com For technical problems email userhelp@theguardian. The original announcement can be found here. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. I don’t think this was one of Phi’s more inspired offerings; unless there is a theme I have missed, I suspect the construction started with the interlinking 11ac, 7dn and 21dn, which are three of the more original clues, but lots of the others were very standard fare with simple word breakdowns. 1 We men are at the top of church’s structure (12) STEEPLEJACKS: JACKS(plural of male name for men) +(at) STEEPLE(the top of church’s structure literally). . A puzzle which would almost have been perfect for beginners…. Everything was ultimately solvable, though 1ac was unfamiliar enough to require some undirected Chambers-browsing on my part. Quick crossword No 16,664. Chandler has set a fair Quiptic. Mainly got stuck in the SE corner. A typically straightforward and well-crafted puzzle from Chifonie, with his usual generous helping of charades, but also a few rather nice anagrams. Print | Accessible version. Set by: Hectence Sun 5 Nov 2023 19. A bit of an unexciting Dante crossword. This one went in steadily, with only one less well known word – a bit of a trademark from this setter. Label displayed by driver: ‘Heart goes after big drinks’ (12, 2 words). I find my view of various compilers being deepened and refined by the task of blogging their puzzles. We found this one as tricky as his previous offerings, but didn’t enjoy it quite so much, mainly due to the unusual (to us) words at 13ac and 25ac, the oddity at 22ac and the fictional character (unknown to us) at 3d. Only 5d gave me a little trouble. com. This Wednesday we have a puzzle from Bluth. Everyman 3742/1 July. Across: 1: AUTOMATIC PILOT: George, 8, is not used to land, of course (9,5): 8 down’s solution being ‘they say’, ‘George’ is the nickname for an aicraft’s automatic pilot. 00 EDT. Good stuff – one of two 3 downs for me in the other downs, but lots of decent clues too. Sun 1 Jan 2023 19. It is published on theguardian. Thanks, Alberich. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. The top-left of the grid held me up with an unfamiliar synonym of ‘river’ and some tricky wordplay. A delightful puzzle from Wire to start the week. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles. Crosswords Blog Quick Cryptic Prize Weekend Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed Quiptic A web-only, cryptic puzzle for beginners and those in a hurry. Enter your clue into the clue box and 7 question marks into the letter/pattern box. Thanks to Vulcan. Learn how your comment data is processed. Top puzzle, that. November 20, 2023 by Quirister. com. 6 Ten made to run around without information, forgetting disorder. Not surprisingly, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot provide a theme; despite half-expecting this I took a while to get 19dn, from which the linked clues followed easily, and generally this was not at all hard. July 10, 2023 by Pierre. And finding when I was trying to explain, this wasn't straightforward. Some tricksy parses and clever decoy work from Gurney today. There’s an extra letter in every clue which has to be removed before solving. Guardian Quiptic 1,184/Matilda July 25, 2022 by Pierre Matilda appears comparatively infrequently as our Quiptic setter, but I always enjoy solving and blogging her puzzles. My top clues are 1a (SEMI-PRECIOUS), 13a (GLADIOLI) and 9d (MINIATURE GOLF). June 29, 2015 by newmarketsausage. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. This preamble could well be just a repeat of what I, and others, have been saying for many months. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Speedy 1445 <<< Older Puzzles. Quiptic 1,237 by Chandler. A pleasure to solve and to blog . Which is not the first time this has happened, and is annoying. I have in my hand a piece of paper…and unfortunately this is the last time I will be able to say that about a newsprint copy of an Indy Prize Cryptic (;+<) Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 25, 2016 I found this an easier Mudd than the previous two and a puzzle clued with some fine surfaces. Also smiled at 4ac – Harry has come up in a few recent. Very nice – Bayreuth made me think Wagner and the Ring, but a good use of the title in German (without des Nibelungen, of course). I found it a relatively gentle start to the morning. A puzzle that at first seemed tough, and then seemed elementary, and ended up being pretty enjoyable, after all. This was pretty much the opposite experience of the Raich puzzle with the World Cup theme. There are 88 homes for sale in 64111 with a median listing home price of $347,000. , EXPRESS) have been given a new twist. The purpose of this site is to provide a daily analysis of, and commentary on, the cryptic puzzles published in the Financial Times, Guardian and Independent (Inquisitor in the i, Enigmatic Variations in the Sunday Telegraph and Cyclops in Private Eye are covered as well). Another enjoyable offering from Tuesday regular, Jason. Quiptic 1,253 by Bartland. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. 00 EDT. Quiptic crossword No 1,250. Sun 21 May 2023 19. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Across; No. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. I think the word “the” fits the grammar-related meaning of “determiner”. You. The insertion indicator is ‘edged with’. Ribosomes are organelles found in cells that translate mRNA into proteins: 9. Abbreviations. Set by: Kite. Set by: Hectence Sun 5 Nov 2023 19. Quiptic 1,233 by Hectence. Across; Clue No: Solution: Clue: Definition (with occasional embellishments) / Logic/parsing 1A: JACOB REES-MOGG: Apparently an upper-class twit, George, involved with job scam (5,4-4) There seems to be an extended submission date for this puzzle, presumably because of the Bank Holidays, so the blog will appear on Saturday 11 June. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. No special comments; the clues I liked best were the simplest ones, e. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. Monday 2 October 2023. I found this pretty hard, especially the top half of the grid. a) 9A: “Shrek’s kind” to give “ogres” seems rather feeble. Sure to pick me up and many others I would think. : 13: DEMOISELLE – (SEED + MOLLIE)*. It’s been a while since we had an FT Monday crossword. Quick, Cryptic, Prize, Quiptic and Genius Email guardian. 1800. ACROSS: 9. Another beautifully crafted entry-level puzzle from Everyman and an illustration of the reason why I always recommend him to any mates who want to get into cryptics. Solving Time: 19 minutes. ACROSS. All straightforward, except perhaps 20, my last one in, and of which I’m not totally certain. Print | Accessible version. Quiptic crossword No 1,231. Sometimes you can be lucky with a puzzle – the words are familiar or you quickly see how most things work and go through it fast. I remember the Lonnie Donegan. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 00 EDT Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 00 EST. Today’s CrypticsTime on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Some of the clues took a little while to parse (15ac took me a few minutes alone), but I got there in the end. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. The Hamilton Spectator. . Some unusually easy clues in today’s puzzle from Cinephile, offset by a couple that needed something a bit more than general knowledge. Pasquale has a well-constructed and tractable Quiptic for our entertainment this morning. Reason particular guest's content (5) 16. g. Quick crossword No 16,664. Excellent crossword from Morph today. . You always know you are in for a carefully constructed and thoughtfully clued Quiptic when Pasquale is in the saddle. Quite straightforward today, nothing obscure or contentious and decent surfaces in the main. Abbreviations. Everyman No 3,999. Speedy crossword No 1,467 Published: 18 Nov. Learn how your comment data is processed. Set by: Carpathian. 00 EDT. Abbreviations. May 22, 2023 by Widdersbel. March 6, 2023 by Pierre. The Ace of Hearts makes his (almost) annual appearance. Perhaps towards the trickier end of the Quiptic range, but with some more straightforward clues to get started. Key: dd. Thank you Monk. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. It took me a long time, but that was because it was good and difficult, and the delay was almost entirely the result of my own incompetence. Across: 1: DOWNSWING: Experiencing the blues, big-band jazz club movement (9): DOWN (experiencing the blues) SWING (big-band jazz) 6: PUT UP: Build from either boundary? (3,2) cryptic def – palindromeAcross; 7: SPOONFED: Given the dumbing down treatment, old-style court favoured initially by Miliband? SPOON = old-fashioned word meaning ‘court‘ (as a verb); F = favoured initially; ED = MilibandLots of fun from Qaos today. 00 EST. 14. : 13: DEMOISELLE – (SEED + MOLLIE)*. Hectence has been doing Quiptics for quite a few years now, I think, and is very good at them,. Thanks Jason. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 18 Comments. Chandler has set a fair Quiptic. And it’s a pangram, which I think is something Hectence makes a point of. BUMPERS (cups or glasses filled to the brim for drinking a toast; big drinks) + TICKER (slang for the heart). One entry, an anagram of X’s name (initial + surname), should be highlighted in the final grid. A solid challenge from ALBERICH today. (DUE PROPER)* with ‘reconstruction’ as the. The results will be in the highest-ranking order. As of around 7:00am UK time, the Guardian Quiptic 1,246 is not available to blog: the site is still offering Carpathian’s puzzle from last week. Good morning, Quiptic crossworders. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and. Guardian Quiptic 1,234/Pasquale. Stay balanced, grounded and focused, safe in the knowledge that your angels surround and support you as you serve your Divine life purpose and path. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Soundly constructed clues and. No particular problem with this one, with the two longest words in the centre coming straightaway from the definitions. 10 . Is it my imagination or have these puzzles become somewhat easier in recent weeks? It’s now taking me longer to write the blog than it did to solve the puzzle. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile. Today’s CrypticsIt’s been three months since we last saw Mass but again he has come up with a themed puzzle that provided a great deal of enjoyment, at least once 8A/2 had been solved. Another beautifully crafted entry-level puzzle from Everyman and an illustration of the reason why I always recommend him to any mates who want to get into cryptics. Across 1 INVOCATION IN (trendy) VOCATION (career) 7 DHOW D (departs) HOW (in what manner) 9 ISIS [cr]ISIS (trouble loses credit) 10 NEBULOSITY *(BOUNTY LIES) 11 CRATER CRATE (jalopy) R (runs) 12 APOLLYON A POLLY (girl). Speedy, Everyman and Azed Email observer. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Read more >>This puzzle reminded me of a year or two back when I thought the Quixote Sunday puzzle was pitched at an easier level than the daily Indy one. I was trying to fit EMON to submariner in 9 across before I realised there were two Ns in ANEMONE and I. “In each clue, one word must take flight before solving, replacing the escapee from the next clue (or first across clue from the last down clue). 00 EDT Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Solving time: About 30 mins; two missing, one wrong. The people living in ZIP code 27610 are primarily black or African American. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and. This one, the first in 2018, seems to mark a farewell to Monday Prize puzzles. 00 EST Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. After several weeks of harder than average Everymans (or should that be Everymen?) we seem to have returned to normal with a very accessible puzzle, though one that was still a pleasure to solve. FF: 8 DD: 7This is Triton’s fourth puzzle in the Inquisitor series. Clear cluing, no obscurities, and enough stuff to keep the improving solver interested as well. Guardian Quiptic 1,230/Pasquale. ACROSS. A fairly straightforward puzzle I think – took about half as long as Mephisto. The thematic content was a ‘anagram and one letter change’ 7-letter word chain, the first and last words of which came from extra letters in across clue wordplay, and the rest from unclued answers. Across: 1: PACHINKO: After taking in bits of Hong Kong, Al’s game for fun in Tokyo! (8) (Al) PACINO taking in H and K. Sun 25 Jun 2023 19. You know what you are going to get with Azed – a puzzle that is clued scrupulously with surfaces that make a good deal of sense. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Monday 2 October 2023. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. With hindsight everything was fair (if you have a good knowledge of Scottish geography, the first book of the Bible etc. It also has a slightly higher than average population density. 3: TROM=rev(mort),PE – yes, “it’s an apparatus for producing a blast of air in a furnace…” thus a reasonable alternative to a bellows. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 24 Comments. I found this a thoroughly decent puzzle. That is still true here, but I think this one is a little more difficult. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Hidden in “erotica mainly”. RIBOSOME: RIE (essentially bRIEf) covering BOSOM (“doing what bra does”). You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. Clue No: ANSWER (GRID ENTRY) Clue with definition underlined: Explanation, with quoted indicators in italics and letters appearing in the ANSWER capitalised and emboldened: Across: 1a: PATTI (PITTA) Maybe Smith Institute, think tank all parties originally backed (5): Institute, Think Tank All Parties: first letters (originally). You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. Read more >>This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I said in yesterday’s blog that I was going to have the same again today. Across. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. I made my way quickly through this puzzle. Set by: Matilda. . You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. An enjoyable puzzle – nothing too obscure, although there are a few slightly trickier clues! Thanks to Chandler. Browse real estate in 64111, MO. I made my way quickly through this puzzle. I made an absolute pig’s ear of this puzzle. Sun 16 Apr 2023 19. To those of you expecting a Dac crossword you should be aware that today is an important day in musical and operatic history. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Pour fat over wretched French jail (8) 17. Solving time: 9:52. Across: 1: VANDAL: Person wantonly damaging property in museum close to Whitehall (6): V AND A (Victoria and Albert “museum”) + (whitehal)L: 5: BARONESS: Titled lady one’s seen in pubs (8): ONE’S seen in BARS (“pubs”): 9: WARRANTY: Bond guarded about angry tirade (8): WARY (“guarded”) about RANT (“angry tirade”): 10: BIG TOP:. Click search. ) and any obscurities were compensated for by the final dénouement resulting from 26/3 and the left- and right-hand columns. As usual. A typical Everyman, smooth surfaces, clear wordplay and definitions, no obscurities, a pleasure to solve and blog. : 5: Ganges: Gangs around E. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. 10 Measurement of weight lost by jerk (5) ANKER wANKER (jerk) ‘losing’ w (weight) – an old liquid measure for wines and spirits. Learn how your comment data is processed. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. On that basis, some have suggested that he’s not really a good fit for the Quiptic slot; their opinion will probably be. Independent 11,446 by Filbert. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. crosswords​@theguardian. 2 thoughts on “Financial Times 12,699 by Cinephile — A puzzle for bird brains?” C G Rishikesh. Artexlen provides this morning’s FT challenge. June 18, 2023. A seasonal touch when 1 down and 11 down are looked at together. MOON might have its third quarter replaced by that of LUNATION giving. A very tough solve overall – glad there were some easier clues to get started. Fitted the bill nicely for a Quiptic, though GEEZERS / GEYSERS will raise eyebrows. Across; No. The most Ximenean of the crowd in terms of wordplay but absolutely a horror when it comes to meaningful surfaces. Never knowingly done an Armonie before but found this pretty straighforward. Sun 11 Jun 2023 19. Clue: Wordplay: Entry: 1 . June 19, 2023 by manehi. Thanks Jason. Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. Lots of fun from Qaos today. Chandler provides our Quiptic challenge today. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. 3 Unease, with male garrison going to dance DISCOMFORT. Quick crossword No 16,664. 10 thoughts on “Independent on Sunday, 1,224 – Kairos”. Also, if you know the background or interests of the Independent crossword setters, you will not be surprised that a puzzle by Klingsor is the Independent offering today. Abbreviations. Well, as easy as one-two-three [four], I would aver. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. across; 6: sword of honour – s + word of honour. This type of clue is one of the reasons that many solvers don’t appreciate Anto’s efforts at compiling a Quiptic puzzle. For the first time since I started blogging here, I am moved to seriously criticise a puzzle. Across; 1: ALLEVIATE – A + VILETALE*: 6: COSTA – COST + A: 9: LEG IT – LEGIT: 10: LOUDMOUTH – LOUD + MOUTH: 11: MATELOT – MATE + LOT: 12: PATELLA – A + TELL in PA: 13,15: PUT ONES HAND TO THE PLOUGH – dd: 19: ELAPSED – PLEASED*: 21: PILLAGE – PAGE around ILL: 22: GALLIVANT – GALLANT around (St). Across. This was harder than a typical Rufus, but mostly not too difficult. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. June 19, 2023 June 19, 2023 by flashling. A second outing for Anto in the Quiptic slot. 18 Silly Superman ran out of froth (5) SPUME : Anagram of ( Silly) [“ Superman ” minus (. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of them – it’s definitely a Quiptic. November 21, 2022 by Quirister. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. An insertion of SS for the ‘borders’ of ‘stupendous’ in BLOOMS. The last one, before Christmas, marked a farewell to Dante. com. Guardian Quiptic 1,230/Pasquale. Newer Puzzles >>> The Guardian is one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites along with its sister papers, The Observer and The Guardian Weekly. Thanks, ChifonieContact the crossword editors. ACROSS. It’s me again, standing in for scchua, who’s away this week. Sun 20 Nov 2022 19. After a slow start I unravelled most of it, but with some very dull moments like solving clues but forgetting they had to go into the grid (especially OCTET), not understanding wordplays (DRAY), not spotting anagram fodder (ARTISTS IN. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles. 00 EST Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. SNAKEBOARDS N in SAKE + BOARDS (not in Chambers).