A tricky, though not unmanageable gridfill, with one particularly devious clue which required crossers to disambiguate the answer. The final step was pretty tough. I found the inventor from the... ...
I enjoyed this one up to the endgame. If I've got it right - and my answer seems to make sense in a couple of ways - then I found the message from extra words misleading. I'm a big fan of the... ...
An absorbing Christmas puzzle with clever use of the theme. I think I've submitted what they were looking for, but I'm happy I've incorporated all the elements. Some obscure words and some fine... ...
I really enjoy Brock's Listener puzzles, as they're packed full of quirky details to unpick, and this was no exception. The place I struggled was in selecting the thematic words, as there were... ...
We haven't had many this year which I would categorise as a "beast", but this one's among them. Brilliantly crafted, evil clues throughout, and lots of deception in the endgame - I loved it.... ...
Another complex multi-gimmick puzzle, but leading to an unambiguous result (although 10D also solves with the wrong gimmick). There's a lot of work that's gone into this, some of which I am yet to... ...
It's not my specialist subject, so I feel I made hard work of this one. Having said that, I don't see any other posts, so maybe it's just a very tricky one. A lot of different gimmicks, but there... ...
An interesting gimmick that was not quite as terrifying as it first appeared to be although we got hung up on 34a which with hindsight is a perfectly fair clue.
There's so little given away in the preamble about the mechanics of this puzzle, I can't really say a lot about it here. But there is a lot to say, and it's a very clever construction which led to... ...
An excellent signing-off from Dysart. No cluing gimmicks, or messages, but some very gnarly clues to get ones teeth into. The theme is well-known, but still takes a lot of finding. A proper... ...
A nicely chewy puzzle, which was a good workout, for which thanks, Agricola. But a very well-worn theme. Are there not some unexplored cultural backwaters we could mine?