Crossword
2579: Destructive plot
One unclued entry (three words) gives the theme, and five others give two-word names directly connected with it. Remaining unclued…
2578: Torture
The same word appears as eight headwords in Chambers. Unclued lights indicate what they mean. The word will appear in…
2577: Light and dark
The unclued lights (three of two words, one of which has an apostrophe) are of two kinds. Across 6 Eat…
2576: After Eleven
The unclued lights form five pairs, as suggested by the title. Across 6 Fashion blunted by useless needle (6) 10…
2575: Problem XIII
Singers will know that where ‘Q’ = ‘the number of’: Q34/22A x Q41/39/1D x Q3/8/38 = Q the 14. 41/39/1D…
2574: A Chinese
The unclued Across lights (including a pair) are of a kind and the unclued Down lights can be preceded by…
2573
22 5 42 14 25 31: 29-40, 10-26. Across 1 Hidden by grass, squad joined after separation (8) 9…
2572: Blown up
Around the perimeter, beginning at square 1, is a line of poetry (seven words, in ODQ) followed by the title…
2571: 10”
The unclued lights (one of two words) are of a kind. Across 1 Bringing down plane that was used…
2570: Short story
The unclued entries comprise two authors and a work of fiction, attributed by one author to the other. Each author…
2569: Anadad
Round the grid from 1 runs a quotation (1,3,4.2,5,3,5,3,2,6) from a play followed by the dramatist’s name (two words). Two…
2568: Next door have gone
The unclued lights, two of two words, and including four pairs using two of the unclued lights twice, are of…
2567: Stop!
The unclued lights (including two pairs, one of which is three words, and one single light of three words) are…
2566: Somewhere XII
Somewhere in 23D 30 July is important. Remaining unclued lights (including two pairs and a trio) give the place’s capital…
2565: 3 x 2
The unclued lights (two single words, one a proper noun, four pairs and one trio) share a certain feature. …
2564: Sea monster
Five unclued lights are descriptions of another (four words), from another, by another (two words). Elsewhere, ignore one accent. …
2563: Areas for development
11 Across (two words) suggests the other unclued lights, which are all one-word anagrams of words of a kind (one…
2562: Clear view but no vowels
The cryptic title of this week’s crossword leads to a five-letter representation of the theme. The unclued lights include two…
2561: PORTS
Six unclued entries comprise systematically ordered non-words thematically linked by a normal entry, itself unclued. Across 1 Awaiting consideration,…
2560: Obit VI
Clockwise round the grid from 7 run the names (8,5,3,3,8,3,8,7,7) of six members of a winning set, the other three…
2559: Platinum upgrade
Reading clockwise around the perimeter are six theme words, in random order, one of which starts in square 38. The…
2558: Blonde, 78
Unclued lights can be grouped into three triplets, each associated in a different sense with a keyword to be discovered,…
2557: Heroes
Clockwise round the grid from a point to be determined run the names of four knights (2,5,5,5,5,8,5,3) followed by what…
2556: Recent origins
The unclued entries have something in common, and are the most recent of their type. One umlaut should be ignored…
2555: 6 x 2 mixtures
The unclued lights (one of two words) can be resolved into six pairs, in some way related. Ignore one acute…
