Please can you help with top right? 11a demolished any I build with little or no noise i?a?????y I guess it's an anagram. 6d issue person joining society raised-when should people retire? b???i?e 7d...
Hello EVers, Pleased to have finished this puzzle in good time as I'm out to lunch today. All very fair but once you have the theme everything falls into place far too quickly. Last week Devadolly won...
Straightforward puzzle with no real difficuties. I know I'm a pedant but I make it that 15 answers produce new words however I have made mistakes with my addition before. Not too much of a...
This puzzle is a real challenge and I think it might just defeat me despite having had a full grid for some time. I'm just not getting how to replace the 10 + 2 letters at all. Perhaps a break might...
Surely preamble should state that replacements for parts of answers to 20 clues are forms of 26 across? However an entirely straightforward and unchallenging puzzle a tad on the easy side for an EV.
Good morning - help with last one please - 18a 4 and 3 letters. clue The ...... 1824 oil on panel by artist Sir Edwin Landseer depicting one of the fables by Jean de la Fontaine. I have ?a?s?a?....
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!...
Need some help with bottom left-hand corner today!! Either 19d Almost turn on the Supreme Leader? Not this way. (6) -----s or 22a Faith teaching during lesson with a tragic old novel. (8) ------s-...
Struggling today anybody got the three bottom left across clues 22 Faith teaching during lesson with a tragic old novel (8) ??????S? 24 Telecommunications company holding position over result of...
18 across is not in Chambers 2011! Understandably setters may have used previous editions when compiling these crosswords but if the preamble goes to the trouble of mentioning that a place name is not...
An enjoyable puzzle but really once you have the grid fill and letters the highlighting is hardly a challenge. Would have been so much more fun without the across misprint letters.
Grid fill a little too straightforward for my liking but fair enough. Not entirely happy with the instruction though. Taken literally it doesn't seem quite right. Anybody else think this? I am...
11ac Party with old man rolling over? One can't stand on feet (4) ?P?E 15dn Discovery when having inner existence manipulated (8) ?I?????D 23ac Poem by mum is full of empty words in a language few of...
Fun puzzle. Very clever to find 5 pairs of words that provide the thematic material in such an appropriate way. Huzzah for Kcit! Heading towards 102 today, so it's cooling off some ;( Still no rain in...
Just three clues left. Please can anyone help 17 down Perceptive sharpness, placing university in Oxford or Cambridge say 6 letters A?U?T? Also 25 across Red line in M6 sign reversed 7 letters M?R?I?A...
Do you shout at or give your kids into trouble for swearing? (im sure you do for young kids but i mean adult kids!?) Or does it not really bother you unless it was excessive!? Or telling a story? Or...
This was far too easy for EV standards. Finished before breakfast! So disappointed as I love to savour this puzzle until at least lunch time. At least it might serve to encourage newcomers I suppose....
A rainy morning here in the West of Ireland, but I managed to get the last copy of the Telegraph, so was able to enjoy this excellent crossword - not the most difficult grid fill, but an entertaining...