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Bluebird’s latest challenge should keep us busy this Thursday. I have had very little experience of solving and blogging work by this setter to date.

I found this to be a real treasure trove, with lots of intricate wordplay, plenty of cultural references to pin down, and a good few penny-drop-moments along the way. As such, I would place it towards the upper en...


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I found some of the clues here quite tricky, but luckily leavened by enough easier ones to help me over the line. Thanks to Brockwell.

There’s a double theme based around two meanings of 1 down, SOAP, which I only noticed the full extent of while writing the blog. There are numerous references in the clues and answers to cleaning products and to soap operas.

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Aretxlen is this morning’s compiler.

A straightforward enjoyable puzzle with no surprises and only a very small amount of general knowledge required (Thomas Arne, MARRIOTT and RANGE ROVERS), none of which is obscure. I had more than half the answers in on my first pass, giving me more than enough crossers to fill in the gaps second time around – possibly a good...


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Hi everyone.  I get a Kcit EV to blog about once annually and Kcitmas this year has fallen in May.

The preamble:

All clues are normal. Eighteen lead to answers too long to fit into the space available (given by enumerations; indications such as “two words” refer to the clue answers) without one to four (consecutive) letters being removed. The remo...


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We have a standard second Wednesday puzzle from Eccles today.

I wonder if we would find clues 1 and 2 down (FASCIST and ‘imposing tariffs on a whim’) in the crosswords of right-wing newspapers, but the sentiments expressed fit with the political stance of The Independent.

Eccles sometimes includes one or two unusual words or phrases in his puzzl...


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