Hello EVers, Well that was a cerebral workout! Even solving the clues proved difficult. I find entering jumbled words awkward at the best of times, too jigsaw puzzle-ish, but this was even worse. I...
Hello EVers, I am amazed I actually have a fully populated grid, and in accordance with the "highllighted" grid letters. As a total philistine I had not heard of 7d, nor his works. I am still somewhat...
Hello all EVers, Enjoyed this immensely, populated the grid quite quickly. At that point I had found 5 Innocents and 4 Weapons, the fifth was more carefully hidden, so I had two potential murder...
First, Happy New Year to all EVers! Spent between Christmas and New Year in London at the flat without internet connection, which was actually quite refreshing, until back home when there were lots of...
The EVeditor has confirmed that 21d is wrongly clued. It should read;
Meal includes empty paper plates. (5)
He has apologised and hopes it has not affected enjoyment of the puzzle....
Good evening EVers, An excellent offering by Nudd. I found the quotation more or less by accident. I had a substantial section of the NW corner populated. That also meant that the "fallen" words...
Hello all EVers, Again I really enjoyed this EV. Several new words to me had to be entered in the grid, but the clue-ing was more than fair, even 3ac. Didn't need the extra words that needed to be...
"Greetings" EVers, I found very few gifts on the first pass through the clues and really had to work the wordplay. The last letter of 12d was an enigma in itself, until the extra letters started to...
Hello EVers, To be honest the first pass through the across clues did not yield too many gifts. However the first pass through the down clues yielded a few with a common letter. My leap of faith...
Hello EVers, Started this with very few gifts on the first pass through the clues. Then the Southern half quickly became populated. The Northern half was a bit of a struggle, but once I had a fully...
Hello all, I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas. Ours was fine until saturday morning! Overnight there had been quite violent gales, which managed to blow down several trees in the back garden,...
Hello All, I must admit to initially being rather daunted by the grid format, and I didn't find too many "gifts" on the first pass though the clues. Really had to work the clues, but to be honest they...
Hello Evers, As soon as I saw this week's setter I rather sensed a rather loud sigh of resignation from Devadolly in the NW! However I found the clue-ing very fair and quite quickly populated the...
Hello EVers I enjoyed this weeks offering from Gaston. I did manage to spy the theme early on in the solve. As with previous EVs, I am reluctant to erase a carefully deduced or solved light. If my...
Hello EVers, A far less demanding EV this week. Three of the clashes appeared quite quickly. which lead to the obvious positioning of the other four. I felt there were more than enough hints in clues...
Hello EVers, After 3 weeks away from EV, I had some difficulty getting into the mindset of Kruger! Then all of a sudden I collected my thoughts and it all sort of fell into place! Time for another...
Hello EVers, Today's offering was fairly straightforward, but definitely enjoyable. The grid population was a bit pedestrian, and despite that resulted in me going anti-clockwise round the perimeter!...
Hello EVers, I started off quite well, solving clues more or less in clue order. Came to a crunching halt in the SE sector, but sorted after a while! Then spotted a "string" of letters that helped....
Hello EVers, I always chortle at the name of this week's compiler, but expect a tough work-out. This week was no exception! As ecpected, had to work on the periphery, then, sort of encroach onto 12d!...
