Category: Monthly Club Special

It’s the best crossword of the month again – the Monthly Club Special. Very tricky – it took me nearly 2 hours, but I had lots of fun along the way

It’s that time of month again. A new Monthly Club Special and the answers to last month’s revealed… and blogged. This one took me an age, but I got there in the end. Lots of lovely words and chewy wordplay to enjoy as usual. Thank-you clever setter for the entertainment.

It’s the Monthly Club Special again and another great challenge of exotic and interesting words and entertaining wordplay.

Yet another cracking puzzle of delightfully unlikely looking words and clever wordplay.

Quintessentially quirky with quite a quantity of Qs, including a queue of them in the middle of a diagonal. Yes it’s the Monthly Club Special providing, once again, cruciverbal entertainment like none other.

It’s that time of the month again when the answers to the Monthly Club Special are unveiled and a new challenge is provided

A Happy New Year to everyone! It being the first of the month, the previous month’s solution is revealed. So here is my blog of December’s Monthly Club Special where it is my privilege to attempt to unscrew the inscrutable. Thank-you clever setter!

Another very entertaining Monthly Club Special, the acme of cryptic crosswords.

Hello and welcome to my first Monthly Club Special blog. The MCS is a crossword that is like a Championship course in comparison to the local 9-hole Quick Cryptic I mostly blog. I do love tussling with these, though. They take me a long time but I have a lot of fun unveiling the delightfully wacky words, like 1A and 26A in this puzzle and unravelling the masterful wordplay, like 10A here. I hope you all enjoyed this too. Thank-you clever setter!

I thought this was really very tricky and I am sorry that I left it until the very end of the month to try to tackle! A number of the clues took a LOT of … Read more “Monthly Club Special 20,264: My First Wish Is For Infinite More Crosswords”