Crossword
2187: River and Islands
The ten unclued lights consist of a theme word and three groups of three answers of a kind, each group…
2186: From the off
Unclued lights (two of two words and one doing double duty), singly or paired, reveal some that are to be…
2185: Over the sea — and bridge
Two unclued lights describe the location of the others, individually or as a pair. One of these unclued lights does…
2184: Airline
Nine unclued lights each contain a different 20 from the same source. The title suggests a further such 20. Elsewhere,…
2183: Group theory
Each of 31 clues comprises a definition and a hidden consecutive jumble of the answer including one extra letter; the…
2182: Tops
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Across 1 Poet has overdose first (5)…
2181: Obit II
The 19 of a great 1A of 6 and for the 1D occurred in 37 25 years ago this month.…
2180: Superfluous
Each of nine clues contains a superfluous word. Initial letters of these words spell a word which can be read…
2179: Cos
The unclued lights are of a specific kind. Additionally each is a legitimate inflected headword in Chambers. Elsewhere, ignore one…
2178: Saint and playwright
The unclued lights are connected by 33/23. One pair of unclued lights gives one context, in which two further pairs…
2177: Amaze
The titles of four of an artist’s works (9,7; 6,6; 6,2,4; 12) read clockwise round the perimeter from a square…
2176: ,
The unclued lights (one hyphened, one of two words), individually or as four pairs, are of a kind. Across…
2175: Elated grunt
Across unclued lights combine with down ones to form anagrams of the titles (one of two words) of four works…
2174: Difficulty
Five clues consist of cryptic indications of partial answers; in each case, the indicated part must be treated thematically to…
2173: Men of note
The unclued lights are of a specific kind. Across 11 Top flier backs help for sloth (6)…
2172: Para
In June we lost a popular 40. Clockwise round the grid from 3 run the titles of two of his…
2171: 31 Across
Seven identical two-by-two squares in the completed grid must be highlighted to depict the unclued entries, each of two words.…
2170: Hector’s Summer Nights
The unclued lights (one of three words and three of two), as three pairs and three individually, are of a…
2169: Land
Six items of one kind, reading clockwise, form the perimeter, whilst four unclued lights are of another kind. All ten…
2168: History exam
Each of twenty-two clues contains a superfluous word. Initial letters of these words spell three specimens of 5; these are…
2167: Groupies
The unclued lights are of a kind and are listed together in Chambers 2011. Solvers should highlight two normally clued…
2166: Somewhere X
Somewhere next to 34 and 12, 33 is 25, the highest mountain is 1D (two words), and the principal 3…
2165: Not far off
According to a quotation (in ODQ) by a person whose surname is an unclued light, an area of five letters…
Blank crossword
Solvers must create the barred grid for themselves; the resulting grid is symmetrical whichever side is uppermost. When submitting an…
2163: Muscle
Six unclued lights (one hyphened) suggest words each differently formed from the same 13 22, which appears as a clued…
