Crossword
2236: Alphabetical jigsaw
This week’s puzzle breaks away from the traditional thematic puzzle. Instead, here is an alphabetical jigsaw for solvers to tackle.…
2235: Vile stuff
1/44 (eight words in total) is part of a question (in ODQ) minus a word exemplified by the other unclued…
2234: A greater measure
One unclued light is the name of a drink which can be measured into three ingredients. Each ingredient has three…
2233: Clutching at straws!
The unclued lights, either individually or as a pair, are of a kind. Ignore one accent. Across 4 Read…
2232: Ups and downs
The unclued lights, in one case paired, are all suggested by a thematic phrase (two words), which is set out…
2231: On the side
Unclued lights (three of two words; ignore one apostrophe) may be grouped to form a related triad. Across …
2230: Lot 46
The unclued lights, five of which are correctly numbered, are of a kind. Ignore one accent. Chambers does not include…
2229: Gnome
The third letters of extra words in two dozen clues spell out a 35 (in ODQ 7&8), associated with the…
2228: Unfair
One unclued light (ignore its umlaut) is the home of a team known by a name which is another unclued…
2227: Word building
The unclued lights (one of two words and another hyphened) can be arranged to form a word pyramid of 3…
2226: Whitehouse
Clockwise from 4 run three titles (6,2,3,6,7,9,3,4,3,4,5) linked with X who won a 21 of 8s. 29 is a fourth…
2225: Category
Four unclued lights (two of which consist of two words each) belong in the same category; one unclued light defines…
2224: All here
The unclued lights (two of two words), individually or as pairs, are of a kind. Elsewhere, ignore one accent. …
2223: Clerihew
29 6 (4 words) is 1 24 (3 words). 24 11 10 (4 words), but 6 11 36 (4 words).…
2222: Exquisite
One unclued light (hyphened) is a 38 of a word hidden in the grid. Two unclued lights are definitions of…
2221: Shielded
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Elsewhere, ignore two accents. Across 1 Transfers…
2220: Poem II
Unclued lights (two hyphened) are words (all but one of which are in ODQ) from a poem whose title appears…
2219: Keep going
Unclued lights (one of three words) are of a kind, as suggested by the title. Across 7 Mostly…
2218: Fab!
The unclued lights (two of three words and two of two words) can be preceded by the same word and…
2217: Poem
Unclued lights (one hyphened) are words from a poem whose subject appears in the completed grid. A clued light is…
2216: Riddle
Two clues are without definitions; their answers form the name of a person with a leading part in four works…
2215: IVOs
The unclued lights (one hyphened and another a novel which is listed in Chambers Crossword Dictionary) display a similar feature…
2214: What’s up?
The theme word is 29 down, which defines each of the other unclued lights (including one of two words) in…
2213: Surprising
A phrase, formed by four unclued lights, incorporates a definition of the other unclued lights and an indication of the…
Plus ça change
The unclued Across lights (Individually or as a pair) are defined by the unclued Down lights (individually or as a…