Author: astartedon

This was a very gentle offering from Tracy to whom I give many thanks for making my final blog such a pleasant solve. FOI was, naturally enough, 7A. Not so naturally, its immediate neighbour 8A … Read more “QC 2075 by Tracy – Goodbye, Everybody, I’ve Got To Go…”

I don’t think I was fully on my game here as I seem to remember quite a few blank spaces before getting my FOI which I think was 15A. Once the answers started going in … Read more “QC 2065 by Mara”

An almost completely sequential solve for me. The only one that I had to pass over first time round was 21A where the double definition just managed to elude me but popped out like a … Read more “QC 2055 by Hurley”

My FOI was 1A quickly followed by several others in sequence and I thought I might be in for a sequential solve but I got derailed somewhere in the middle so didn’t quite make it. … Read more “QC 2045 by Izetti”

Thank you to Joker for what I found to be a medium-difficulty QC. But then I am just recovering from the excesses of the last couple of days (just packed my sister and family back … Read more “QC 2035 by Joker”

I felt this was a pretty standard Monday puzzle with a lot of the types of clue that I find most straightforward. I think there were three anagrams, four double definitions and two hidden words. … Read more “QC 2025 by Orpheus”

Hi Jalna, I don’t think we have ever met before, but thank you for this elegant offering which took me back to one of my favourite works of literature (Ulysses) and managed a slyly topical … Read more “QC 2015 by Jalna”

An entertaining puzzle with heavy use of cryptic definitions which I greatly enjoyed, viz. 8A, 16A, 20A and 9D. Many thanks to Wurm (whom I have only met infrequently, if at all (cue stats confirmation … Read more “QC 2005 by Wurm”

A lot of good clues here and for the most part the surfaces were shiny smooth and read very naturally. Medium difficulty from my end, what say you, good people? Pleased to see ‘drunk’ used … Read more “QC 1995 by Breadman”

A highly enjoyable puzzle from Tracy. I think I got as far down as 9A before my FOI went in. As to my LOI and COD, in one of his restaurant review columns a couple … Read more “QC 1985 by Tracy”