Across: 1: SPINOZA: 2’s handling of media with lightweight article SPIN (handling of media) + OZ (ounce) + A = Baruch Spinoza , a 17C Dutch PhilosopherSun 4 Jun 2023 19. 7 PHI Hidden. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Speedy, Everyman and Azed Email. That is still true here, but I think this one is a little more difficult. : 13: DEMOISELLE – (SEED + MOLLIE)*. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Generally straightforward with some clever clues here and there. 5 . 20 Janitor finding joyrider around the middle of. 00 EST. who has been trying to learn cryptic crosswords with the weekly Quiptic. ‘In GOOD AUSPICES, answers to unclued entries in single-digit positions are thematically related; those at 11 (so they say) belong to a later set. with a theme around drugs including the surfaces of 13ac and 5dn, as well as UPPER, SEDATES, TAB[let], HORSE=heroin, PILLS, BLOW/SNOW=cocaine, RAINBOW=LSD, TEA/POT, GRASS, HASH BROWNIES, DOPE, DUST… any more? Bartland is inviting you to replace the first T in TWITTER with an S. The Guardian. 10 thoughts on “Independent on Sunday, 1,224 – Kairos”. cad clue as definition. A bit of an unexciting Dante crossword. The Guardian Quiptic 1231 June 19, 2023 Crossword Answers. Crosswords Blog Quick Cryptic Prize Weekend Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed Quiptic A web-only, cryptic puzzle for beginners and those in a hurry. Solving Time: 19 minutes. Virtually every word in each clue plays an important part in the wordplay or definition with only a few additonal link words to improve the surface. Reason particular guest's content (5) 16. 00 EDT. June 29, 2015 by newmarketsausage. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Sun 11 Jun 2023 19. Stick Insect seems to have averaged one or two EVs a year since 2013-or so, and I think I have attempted/solved most of them, but this is the first of his I have had to blog – and what a delightful puzzle it was…Guardian Quiptic 717 / Orlando. Not over-taxing for a Tuesday, but plenty to admire and enjoy in this rather elegant composition. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. November 20, 2023 by Pierre. with (for me) a couple of unfamiliar words (BLADDERED, CLOU) and unfamiliar usages (BEGGARLY, PIRATE), plus a delightful callback to the New Romantic era. Home yesterday from hospital with a viciously painful new knee. The number of people in their late 20s to early 40s. Set by: Pasquale. Across. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Quick crossword No 16,664. I think this is Matilda’s second appearance in the Cryptic slot, after a distinguished career as a Quiptic setter. You. The Guardian. Chandler has set a fair Quiptic. My clue of the week is 3d (CAGE) and I also would pick out 5d (LITERATE). There were some carefully-constructed clues in this Quiptic from Anto, but as so often with this setter, a number of imprecisions which would have made it harder – and more frustrating – for those in the ‘beginners’ category. Clue No: ANSWER (GRID ENTRY) Clue with definition underlined: Explanation, with quoted indicators in italics and letters appearing in the ANSWER capitalised and emboldened: Across: 1a: PATTI (PITTA) Maybe Smith Institute, think tank all parties originally backed (5): Institute, Think Tank All Parties: first letters (originally). 5 bath property. Many will welcome Armonie on a Monday, including me. MOON might have its third quarter replaced by that of LUNATION giving. Monday Prize Crossword / Oct 16, 2017. It is published on theguardian. No prize crossword today but a Farewell to Dante. Solving time: 12 mins. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence. You always know you are in for a carefully constructed and thoughtfully clued Quiptic when Pasquale is in the saddle. As we have now come to expect, we can’t help feeling that there is something going on here, but we can’t find a theme or a nina. Solving time: probably 35’ total with lots of interruptions. The Ace of Hearts makes his (almost) annual appearance. The thematic content was a ‘anagram and one letter change’ 7-letter word chain, the first and last words of which came from extra letters in across clue wordplay, and the rest from unclued answers. Sun 25 Jun 2023 19. No printing errors! At least none that I can see, thank you to whoever has taken up the challenge. About Fifteensquared. Sun 26 Feb 2023 19. Nothing too taxing today, although 4 across held me up for a little while. Independent 11,446 by Filbert. Nutmeg’s Wednesday offering was challenging, but fun and fair. We found this one as tricky as his previous offerings, but didn’t enjoy it quite so much, mainly due to the unusual (to us) words at 13ac and 25ac, the oddity at 22ac and the fictional character (unknown to us) at 3d. , EXPRESS) have been given a new twist. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. quite losing it in fight, as shown by nose (7) (QUITE excluding. Sun 5 Mar 2023 19. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. A seasonal touch when 1 down and 11 down are looked at together. Don’t worry, this isn’t one of them – it’s definitely a Quiptic. The results will be in the highest-ranking order. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. RIBOSOME: RIE (essentially bRIEf) covering BOSOM (“doing what bra does”). Hi smiffy I don’t think a ‘slam dunk’ is a true overhead smash. Especially in the Down clues there were a lot of cryptic definitions. paddymelon. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles. I found this a thoroughly decent puzzle. 00 EST. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Our favourite Dickensian returns to the Quiptic slot to pummel our dozy Monday morning brains. Quiptic crossword No 1,216. Everyman No 3,999. Tougher than Falcon’s usual, with all his elegance and breadth of references. No surprises (unlike last time), many double and cryptic definitions. Hidden in “erotica mainly”. : 9: puritanism – (up + martinis)*. After a slow start I unravelled most of it, but with some very dull moments like solving clues but forgetting they had to go into the grid (especially OCTET), not understanding wordplays (DRAY), not spotting anagram fodder (ARTISTS IN. There may be a couple of old chestnuts (e. Some unusual words made this one a little harder for me than some recently from Quixote. 6 Ten made to run around without information, forgetting disorder. Across: 1: ONE FINE DAY Dreadful English summer noted by Puccini (3,4,3): Double / Cryptic definition A very nice clue to start with. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. Here we have another great puzzle from Mudd. . I was trying to fit EMON to submariner in 9 across before I realised there were two Ns in ANEMONE and I. ACROSS. As usual. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. com every. This preamble could well be just a repeat of what I, and others, have been saying for many months. Set by: Matilda Sun 18 Aug 2019 19. Only 5d gave me a little trouble. 25A is quite brilliant, and there’s a self-referential clue at 19A (the setter Everyman is the same as Falcon). Across: 1: PACHINKO: After taking in bits of Hong Kong, Al’s game for fun in Tokyo! (8) (Al) PACINO taking in H and K. Print | Accessible version. Some rather tricky clues today which meant that this was far from a quick solve for me. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. Print | Accessible version. DER RING DO. Dunno about you but I made heavy weather of some of this, not helped by putting a wrong answer in 8d initially. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. The wordplay is accessible, so with help from good old Wikipedia, it wasn’t too tough. Guardian Quiptic 1,230/Pasquale. I made my way quickly through this puzzle. INROAD: An &lit: (RAID ON)* with “antagonist” as the anagram indicatorA treat for me this week Oxymoron – a favourite compiler of mine for many a year. Guardian Cryptic Crossword No 29,100 Set By Vulcan. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. There’s a theme involving characters from the TV series M*A*S*H, who are collected up in the final clue. Across; 1/15: IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: Pubic hair in settee removed with lint (not A1) – cynical excuse for tabloid exposé? (2,3,6,8) (PUBIC HAIR IN SETTEE + LINT – AI)* AInd: removed. As of around 7:00am UK time, the Guardian Quiptic 1,246 is not available to blog: the site is still offering Carpathian’s puzzle from last week. ) Thanks to Pan for a puzzle that’s par for the Quiptic genre. Across: 1: DOWNSWING: Experiencing the blues, big-band jazz club movement (9): DOWN (experiencing the blues) SWING (big-band jazz) 6: PUT UP: Build from either boundary? (3,2) cryptic def – palindromeAcross; 7: SPOONFED: Given the dumbing down treatment, old-style court favoured initially by Miliband? SPOON = old-fashioned word meaning ‘court‘ (as a verb); F = favoured initially; ED = MilibandLots of fun from Qaos today. “One Fine Day” is the English translation of “Un Bel Di” from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. com For technical problems email userhelp@theguardian. Chandler has set a fair Quiptic. Solving time: About 30 mins; two missing, one wrong. The puzzle may be found at I thought this at the easier end of the Guardian spectrum, but with some nice ideas. In clue order omitted letters spell the second part of the definition (six words) of a two-word phrase. Quiptic crossword No 1,250. church spires, to do maintenance work on them. The insertion indicator is ‘edged with’. Set by: Hectence Sun 5 Nov 2023 19. 00 EST. Key: dd. Across: 1: AUTOMATIC PILOT: George, 8, is not used to land, of course (9,5): 8 down’s solution being ‘they say’, ‘George’ is the nickname for an aicraft’s automatic pilot. I got maybe 75% of this very quickly but the last few took a long time to finish, especially the SW corner. Solving time 1:03:33. 11: U-SHAPED – (HEADS UP)*. Across. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. BASHFUL (the name of one of the seven dwarfs in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). Quiptic 1231. Guardian Quiptic 1,230/Pasquale. Across: 1: AUTOMATIC PILOT: George, 8, is not used to land, of course (9,5): 8 down’s solution being ‘they say’, ‘George’ is the nickname for an aicraft’s automatic pilot. It took me a long time, but that was because it was good and difficult, and the delay was almost entirely the result of my own incompetence. Learn how your comment data is processed. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. I agree with Cellomaniac – difficulty is largely. SC @12 and muffin @13: and across Wales where anything with the word ‘Twr’ is also a hill. . You. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 16 thoughts on “Independent 11,446 by Filbert”. All straightforward, except perhaps 20, my last one in, and of which I’m not totally certain. 11 Recalled to narrate account: Shakespeare’s Shrew?CALLET (TELL (narrate) AC (account))<Another relatively swift solve for me this week, with only 2dn forcing me to turn to Chambers in the hope that there wouldn’t be too many entries in there beginning with those six letters!Solving time 48 mins, no Chambers until grid complete, 2 mistakes (32,33) Don Manley said in a recent comment how glad he was to see Azed returning to this blog, and mentioned the importance of the monthly clue-writing competition. Speedy, Everyman and Azed Email observer. EP6. Across; 9: BEATITUDE – BEAT IT + DUE*. Across: 1: PACHINKO: After taking in bits of Hong Kong, Al’s game for fun in Tokyo! (8) (Al) PACINO taking in H and K. It means the god of love in Hindu mythology, or (uncapitalised) earthly desire. Set by: Kite. July 3, 2023 by Quirister. Everyman 3742/1 July. This time, it’s a book of actual puzzles – and the stories behind them Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Support us Print subscriptions US edition Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 31 across, perhaps because the surfaces of some of the others felt a bit contrived. Everything was ultimately solvable, though 1ac was unfamiliar enough to require some undirected Chambers-browsing on my part. Another superb Friday treat, this time from Alberich, thanks to whom for presenting a challenge that was equal parts fun as it was clever. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Also smiled at 4ac – Harry has come up in a few recent. You know what you are going to get with Azed – a puzzle that is clued scrupulously with surfaces that make a good deal of sense. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. 59 thoughts on “Guardian Cryptic 29,100 by Vulcan”. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 24 Comments. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 27, 2015. Quiptic crossword No 1,220. Some of the clues took a little while to parse (15ac took me a few minutes alone), but I got there in the end. This was quite relaxingly enjoyable. Lor! Oh so good. SNAKEBOARDS N in SAKE + BOARDS (not in Chambers). Things have all got a bit tawdry recently, haven’t they…still, we have the ‘sunlit uplands’ to look forward to…are we there yet?… Read more >>Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Plenty of entertainment here and not much to moan about. Excellent crossword from Morph today. 00 EST. I think the word “the” fits the grammar-related meaning of “determiner”. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. XENOPH[ob]ES (those who hate foreigners) without OB (abbreviation for old boy = former pupil of a school), containing (pening) AN. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 16, 2014. Cryptic crossword No 29,191. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Stick Insect seems to have averaged one or two EVs a year since 2013-or so, and I think I have attempted/solved most of them, but this is the first of his I have had to blog – and what a delightful puzzle it was… Quick, Cryptic, Prize, Quiptic and Genius Email guardian. 00 EDT. This type of clue is one of the reasons that many solvers don’t appreciate Anto’s efforts at compiling a Quiptic puzzle. In all remaining clues, single extra letters involved in wordplay spell a further description of X. I made an absolute pig’s ear of this puzzle. 10 thoughts on “Independent on Sunday, 1,224 – Kairos”. 00 EDT. After this actor was used by Mordred on Monday, I put him into my memory bank, but he’s there again on his 28th birthday as the Indy recorded today. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. In this second sense it qualifies as an & lit clue. 9 Run-down property due proper reconstruction. I was coming along fine until the last 5 clues which took me thrice as long as the rest of the puzzle. July 8, 2018 by Pierre. This was pretty much the opposite experience of the Raich puzzle with the World Cup theme. This is an extremely popular crossword puzzle in which for sure you will pass some great time and also keep your brain sharp with all the interesting crossword clues found on each day on The Guardian Quiptic Crossword puzzles. ACROSS. 1 HALV(e) AH Pleased to work out a new word from the clear wordplay. General Chapters: <1231> WATER FOR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Sun 21 May 2023 19. Not surprisingly, Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot provide a theme; despite half-expecting this I took a while to get 19dn, from which the linked clues followed easily, and generally this was not at all hard. The Herald. June 19, 2023 by Oriel. . Across; Clue No: Solution: Clue: Definition (with occasional embellishments) / Logic/parsing 1A: JACOB REES-MOGG: Apparently an upper-class twit, George, involved with job scam (5,4-4)There seems to be an extended submission date for this puzzle, presumably because of the Bank Holidays, so the blog will appear on Saturday 11 June. 00 EDT. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. 11 Supporting beam, very much still aliveA tough challenge from BRADMAN this Friday. g. Solving time, 21 mins. com Guardian Quiptic 717 / Orlando. Perhaps towards the trickier end of the Quiptic range, but with some more straightforward clues to get started. com every Monday Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. 3: TROM=rev(mort),PE – yes, “it’s an apparatus for producing a blast of air in a furnace…” thus a reasonable alternative to a bellows. Learn how your comment data is processed. Not the easiest of Quiptics, with a few awkward. A rare Friday appearance from ARTEXLEN, thanks to whom for a good workout. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Boatman and I capsized in. 00 EDT. 12a (CUBA). March 6, 2023 by Pierre. An unusually large number of double definitions this morning, but otherwise the setter demonstrating. church spires, to do maintenance work on them. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Favourites 9ac, 12ac, 15ac, 25ac, 7dn, 8dn, and 17dn. Across; 9: BEATITUDE – BEAT IT + DUE*. Sun 20 Nov 2022. 1800. Chandler provides our Quiptic challenge today. The theme was evidently pi and I think the effort of trying to shoehorn pi into all the across answers made for some difficult clues. 5 – 2 hours – Chambers used for 25D only. Print | Accessible version. Found this extremely straightforward – favourites were 11ac and 8dn. BLOSSOMS. 30 Minute Cryptic Crossword. L (learner) + AM (ante meridiem, so "in morning") with PP (pianissimo in music notation, so "very quiet") + OST ("east" in "German"). (“bits of Hong Kong”) Pachinko is a Japanese game. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. (DUE PROPER)* with ‘reconstruction’ as the. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quiptic crossword No 1,201. Guardian Quiptic 1,216/Anto. Found this extremely straightforward – favourites were 11ac and 8dn. June 19, 2023 June 19, 2023 by flashling. For the first time since I started blogging here, I am moved to seriously criticise a puzzle. Surely a sad day for many crossword lovers. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 16, 2014. Abbreviations. But I said that last time I blogged Pasquale, and most folk differed. Across. The theme here – female names – became apparent pretty swiftly, and many of the answers fell into place in short order. “In each clue, one word must take flight before solving, replacing the escapee from the next clue (or first across clue from the last down clue). Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. One entry, an anagram of X’s name (initial + surname), should be highlighted in the final grid. Ecological by Kruger. Sometimes you can be lucky with a puzzle – the words are familiar or you quickly see how most things work and go through it fast. I initially thought this must be something used in fly. As easy as you’d expect on a Monday except for a few horticultural clues that were completely out of my areas of expertise, which had to wait until I had most of the checking letters and then required a bit of dictionary work to confirm once I’d had a guess from the wordplay. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. This home was built in 1980 and last sold on. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and. 9: MOHAIRComments on: Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler @expelliarmus16, school is a collective noun for fish. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. The puzzle may be found at I thought this at the easier end of the Guardian spectrum, but with some nice ideas. Greetings earthlings! I’ve managed to resurface after something of a blogging exile – it turned out that the rehab clinic wouldn’t allow me wi-fi access during my (longer than anticipated) stay. Learn how your comment data is processed. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. cd cryptic definition. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Find below all The Guardian Quiptic Crossword 1231 Answers. 7 RO UGH OR< 9 M (INNESOT) AN (tension)*A good puzzle. 10 Measurement of weight lost by jerk (5) ANKER wANKER (jerk) ‘losing’ w (weight) – an old liquid measure for wines and spirits Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 2, 2014. Solving time: 5:12. Greater Victoria Public Library - Esquimalt Branch,library,1231 Esquimalt Rd, Victoria, BC V9A 3P1, Canada,address,phone. out of) “ ran “]. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. No special comments; the clues I liked best were the simplest ones, e. Top puzzle, that. 2: L(AN)X – yes, it’s a large antique plate: and LX is sixty. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Today’s CrypticsTime on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Clear cluing, no obscurities, and enough stuff to keep the improving solver interested as well. Across; 1: Antique black diamonds always found in half of boutique that’s disorganized (12, 3 words) — OBJET DE VERTU — (jet d ever) in (bout{ique})*: 10: Spite of old to detest in female beast (6) — MAUGRE — ma(ug)re — I’m not sure which of the bits ‘of old’ refers to (ug is an archaic word and so is maugre); usually Azed makes this clear. Quiptic 1,231 by Chandler. Another Quiptic from Bartland, who’s become a regular in this slot over the past year or so. Schadenfreude shows up here about every couple of months. 3 Unease, with male garrison going to dance DISCOMFORT. Abbreviations. Sun 12 Nov 2023 19. It also has a presence in the US and Australia as Guardian US and Guardian Australia. Across: 1: VANDAL: Person wantonly damaging property in museum close to Whitehall (6): V AND A (Victoria and Albert “museum”) + (whitehal)L: 5: BARONESS: Titled lady one’s seen in pubs (8) Across: 1: DOWNSWING: Experiencing the blues, big-band jazz club movement (9): DOWN (experiencing the blues) SWING (big-band jazz) 6: PUT UP: Build from either boundary? (3,2) cryptic def – palindrome Across; 7: SPOONFED: Given the dumbing down treatment, old-style court favoured initially by Miliband? SPOON = old-fashioned word meaning ‘court‘ (as a verb); F = favoured initially; ED = Miliband Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. Set by: Anto. Preamble: Just over 25 per cent of clues contain a redundant word that must be removed before solving. Chandler has set a fair Quiptic. I have in my hand a piece of paper…and unfortunately this is the last time I will be able to say that about a newsprint copy of an Indy Prize Cryptic (;+<) Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 25, 2016 I found this an easier Mudd than the previous two and a puzzle clued with some fine surfaces. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Crosswords Blog Quick Cryptic Prize Weekend Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed Quiptic A web-only, cryptic puzzle for beginners and those in a hurry. June 19, 2023 June 19, 2023 by flashling. One of those puzzles where the parsing took as much time as the solving did for many clues, if not longer. So here’s a highly retrospective blog to fill the hole in an otherwise unbroken sequence. Contact the crossword editors. Which is not the first time this has happened, and is annoying. I found this pretty hard, especially the top half of the grid. 4D: my thought on solving was that “For example, the” was the def. Clue: Wordplay: Entry: 1 . It is published on. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. The purpose of this site is to provide a daily analysis of, and commentary on, the cryptic puzzles published in the Financial Times, Guardian and Independent (Inquisitor in the i, Enigmatic Variations in the Sunday Telegraph and Cyclops in Private Eye are covered as well). Enjoyed a lot of the surfaces and the challenge to get it all parsed. In this second sense it qualifies as an & lit clue. And a bit of biblical stuff as well, which could fall into the same category. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Very nice – Bayreuth made me think Wagner and the Ring, but a good use of the title in German (without des Nibelungen, of course). Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. : 10: men at arms – (smart name)*. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. a) 9A: “Shrek’s kind” to give “ogres” seems rather feeble. I initially thought this must be something used in fly. Thanks to Eimi for supplying the image)Monday Prize Crossword / Nov 6, 2017. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. For the clue PUZZLE, we are looking for an answer that contains 7 letters. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. Financial Times 17,446 by JASON. 12 J zEALOUSPrize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 5, 2014. Monday Prize Crossword / Mar 14, 2016. I don’t think she has ever appeared in the main Cryptic slot, and nor has Vulcan ever appeared in the Quiptic slot, so a mix-up seems somewhat unlikely. Preamble: Seven of a set of ten are to appear clockwise in the perimeter. Bruce and Sheila are stereotypical Australian male and female names respectively. Browse real estate in 64111, MO. June 29, 2015 by newmarketsausage. Across; 8/9: ARETHA FRANKLIN — the rather difficult wordplay is ((heart)* Frank) in {P}alin — Sarah Palin is evidently keen to be regarded as a hockey mom: at least that is how the press tends to portray her1: FEE(DLO)T – old* in FEET. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile. The accent from Hull is somewhat unique. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quiptic 1,221 by Hectence April 10, 2023 by Quirister It’s Hectence’s turn to provide a Quiptic this week. Read more >>This puzzle reminded me of a year or two back when I thought the Quixote Sunday puzzle was pitched at an easier level than the daily Indy one. . Across: 1: LUKEWARM: Conflict between evangelist and medium lacking conviction (8): An envelope (‘between’) of WAR (‘conflict’) in LUKE (‘evangelist. Learn how your comment data is processed. The latter is one of those words that I ever pronounce the same way twice in a row. All that follows was achieved only with the aid of otherwise illegal drugs, for which much thanks.