Solved in just under 20 mins, a bit slower than usual for Virgilius, where a theme usually becomes clear to help the solver along. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Categories Guardian Quiptic 13 Comments. Guardian Quiptic 1,072/Pan. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence. Some cleverly misleading clues, some fantastic cryptic definitions, and just a few simpler ones to help fill the grid. Quiptic crossword No 1,220. Independent 11,422 by Xestobium. This home is currently off market - it last sold on October 15, 2007 for. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Across: 1: RECOIL: Flinch from a backlash (6): Double definition 4: MARGINAL: Such a seat maybe alarming to MPs (8) (ALARMING)*, the definition seems clear to me but hard to underlineEntertaining crossword from Bradman with a “fishy” flavour and some deft anagrams. And one I know nothing about. Quick, Cryptic, Prize, Quiptic and Genius Email guardian. Read more >>Inquisitor 1207. There was a nice bit of deception in the note above the puzzle which said that the four undefined clues “were connected with a comma”. Guardian Quiptic 1,246/Placeholder. Print | PDF version | Accessible version. The original blogger couldn’t make it on time, so it’s me again. Solving time – about 7 mins. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Got most of the rhs out but the lhs was mainly blank. Definitions are underlined in the clues. This Magwitch puzzle proved a good and satisfying challenge. ) A straightforward puzzle, except for a couple of minor niggles. A challenge, but worth the effort. dd double definition. Daily easy, quick and cryptic crosswords puzzles. Hard in places as you’d expect, for a change Filbert has included a helpful Nina, the outside columns read HELPFUL LETTERS although they weren’t particularly helpful until late in the solve, thanks Filbert. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. I like my birds and I love my cricket, so I couldn’t not have a good crack at this one. 00 EDT. : 5: DASYPOD – (DOPY + SAD)<. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence; Independent on Sunday 1,734 by Italicus; Azed 2656; Everyman 3,995;I completed left top corner first and then the right top. As ever lots of cryptic and double definitions as is Dante/Rufus’s style. ) Slow to get started, but the pace quickened towards the finish (maybe it was the late night last night). May 8, 2023 by Quirister. Read more >> Categories Guardian Quiptic 39 Comments. Favourites were 13ac, 17ac, 1dn, 2dn, 15dn, and 18dn. Your trust is our top concern, so businesses can't pay to. Speedy 1441 <<< Older Puzzles. Across: 1. Thanks to Carpathian for the puzzle. The SE corner was tricky to unravel, the rest of the answers fell into place without hiccups though the wordplay took more time to work out. 14. I can’t make a connection (there probably is one) to the numerical answers: hundred and one, thousand, and eleven. So, another new setter has wandered into this space. definitions are underlined. Thanks WANDERER, for a pleasant and witty challenge. Today’s Cryptics. Seeing the massive fall of snow in the UK, he must have wished he tarried longer down under or stopped over with Uncle Yap, 3 degree north of the equator and enjoying. I can’t make a connection (there probably is one) to the numerical answers: hundred and one, thousand, and eleven. Carpathian brings us our Quiptic challenge today. Gaufrid in 1993. Nice misdirection with ‘small pad’ seeming to reference a bedsit: 10: EARHOLE – E + A + ROLE around H. Anto has a quirky style that doesn’t please everyone, and is on record as saying that he likes to. Gaufrid in 1993. First puzzle in the new year and it is one of my favourite setters. The scheduled blogger scchua. Lorraine: Good Morning to you all,. Everton Football Club are known as the Toffeemen, or Toffees for shortAgain, this is quite tricky for a Quiptic but mercifully easier than last week’s one. ) Slow to get started, but the pace quickened towards the finish (maybe it was the late night last night). Ignoring obstructive bars and replacing letters in barred-off and corner cells with the letters IN GRIM AUTHOR’S CV, three sides of the completed grid will reveal a quotation. 1 U MP IRE. 00 EDT. 4 OB SERVER Nice seamless join at see/old. Quiptic crossword No 1,221. Only one sense of “garotte” is at work here,. Im’ sure others started with the outside as (see him)* (c) ICTAL – hidden words – ictus = an epileptic fit (d) ELLIPSES – spill in see, all rev. April 2023. 15 thoughts on “Independent on Sunday 1,734 by Italicus”. An enjoyable and relatively gentle end to the week. I thought this was the easiest puzzle I have blogged in the FT for a long while. Quick crossword No 16,581. THE WASP FACTORY – anagram of OF CREW THAT PAYS. 00 EDT. Find the clues that have the same answer. 00 EDT. It was. You drew my attention to the fact that I hadn’t modified the ‘Preview’ plug-in so that the site matched the screenshot I generated earlier. (1A) Group to assess for a speaker a passage between seats (7) (1I) Protection for the finger or the limb possibly (7) (3A) Examine source of contagion in medical facility (4) (3F) Top. Clue: Wordplay: Entry: 1 . Read more >> Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quiptic 596/Hectence. Quiptic crossword No 127. Top puzzle, that. November 2, 2015 November 2, 2015 by Pierre. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. 8 Princess cut by a bit of rig in which one gets the chop? KARATE An insertion of A and R in KATE. Like the rest of my fellow Monday Indy bloggers, I’ve given up on the first puzzle of the working week being the ‘easy one’ (although that was the only reason that I put my hand up to blog the Monday puzzle in the first place). Monday Prize Crossword on 17 May 2010 Once again, a gentle start to the week with the maestro of the slick and smooth clues. This grid is normally a stinker (it has twelve 9-letter words each with only four checked letters and its four quarters are connected by just a single square each at the centre) but it was more than justified in this case: all of the 9-letter words begin with ‘A’ and end in ‘T’ (all in unchecked cells) which is a pretty impressive feate of. regularly) “ repasts “. Quiptic 1227. crosswords​@theguardian. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 21, 2015. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Defn:. Set by: Kite. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More. Circle newspaper article revealing chief troublemaker in group (10) RINGLEADER: RING+LEADER: 6. Speedy, Everyman and Azed Email observer. Most probably the last photo taken of him. THRACE (historical and geographic area in southeast Europe, centred on the modern borders of Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey; old country). All welcome. Set by: Kite. Not a toughie, but a goodie: plenty of variety and invention here from Orense, though perhaps one too many hidden solutions. 3 – World by Gaff. Double helping of steak and kidney pie!Puzzles like this one, where the clues given in alphabetical order of their answers, tend to involve a fair amount of cold solving before a tipping point where (if the solver is lucky) everything slots into place. SURTAX: Charge almost certain to prove trying (6) SUR[E] + TAX: 10. I don’t think I’ve blogged a Gurney puzzle before (though I’ve come across him as Raich in the Indie). This didn’t seem quite like usual Thursday fare, since Thursdays tend to be rather difficult, for me at any rate, and although there are several places here where I don’t fully understand what’s going on, it did seem to be rather easier than usual. (accident and emergency, so “hospital department”). Guardian Quiptic. 1 Negligent couples deserting those with injuries (6) CASUAL casual{ties}. July 18, 2022 July 18, 2022 by scchua. 3: P(R)OSER – the definition is “Writer (no poet)” – the parenthetical qualification emphasizing that our writer only produces prose as opposed to poetry. AMPUTEES: People like Nelson meet up. Brava, Matilda. The usual cryptic definitions galore as one expects from this setter. I did manage it, but only because I was familiar with the ducks – I’d not have got many of them from the wordplay. Quiptic; Genius; Speedy; Everyman; Azed; Azed Crosswords. Tue 27 Jun 2023 19. Solving time, 16 mins. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. February 20, 2023 by Pierre. Across; 1: ALBANY HERALD – (a ballad Henry)*. 31ac is being too clever for it’s own good, I feel. Across: 1: CUP TIE: President grabbed by female who is attractive and game (3,3): P (president) grabbed by CUTIE (attractive female) 4: SPRAY GUN: Newspaper includes petition, good device that can make a splash (5,3): SUN (newspaper) includes [ PRAY (petition ) G (good)]Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of December 5, 2015 . dd double definition. (Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. This turned out to be a speedy, enjoyable solve. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence. What sort of MAJORITY is Ifor testing us with this week – is it a political majority – wafer-thin Brexitian or 80-strong Johnson-ian; a ‘coming of age’ majority; or a military major-ity, like Major Major in Catch-22?A typically satisfactory puzzle from Phi, with so far as I can see no controversial clues. Across; 1: A STIFF UPPER LIP : Hiker by border following dog with no lead, one kept by Briton? (1,5,5,3) [m]ASTIFF (dog with no lead) UPPER (hiker – as in raising something) LIP (border) The clue the provided the breakthrough in the top half and most of the puzzle, when I eventually got it – purely from definition and letter count. There is a gentle Nina — hardly a Nina, more a recurrent theme, and I don’t know how this one sits in the list provided the other day — where two answers are juxtaposed and a hidden answer is then found. A nice accompaniment to my morning coffee (and what a splendidly sunny morning it is). At the end of the allotted time, some gaps existed in the left bottom corner (22a, 29a, 18d). You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. May 26, 2023 May 22, 2023 by Widdersbel. Quiptic crossword No 1,227. Another meaning is the same as the German word klang – a complex tone. Quiptic Quiptic crossword No 1,221. The author’s real name was David John Moore Cornwell. Crosswords Quiptic crossword No 1,227 Print | Accessible version Set by: Hectence Sun 21 May 2023 19. Monday Prize Crossword/Dec 8. Across: 1. Filbert was on duty last Sunday so a little surprised to see him on again today. Quiptic crossword No 727. Top puzzle, that. Pages occupying perch bob up and down (6): POPPLEPrize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 28, 2017 I found this to be a moderately challenging Mudd. crosswords​@theguardian. Quiptic 1,225 by Pasquale. A spin in a car, for example, and spin bowlers are normally also slow bowlers. Definitions are underlined in the clues. A straightforward start to the week from one of the masters of the cryptic definition. The theme is Tom Jones, with some clever anagrams involving his name and several of his songs referred to in the clues but, as usual with Tramp, you don’t need to know them to be able to solve them: however, if you do know about the. A letter must be inserted into all down and most across clues before solving. Quiptic crossword No 1,207. Learn how your comment data is processed. It’s TRIO as. Across 1. HUMBER: 8 doubt expressed before using most of federal capital (6) HUM + BER[N] (capital of the Swiss. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Liked too many clues to list them all here. I am not sure about how ‘SA’ in 20dn works (if I am right), nor the definition in 3dn. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. April 18, 2011 by Pierre. Sun 4 Jun 2023 19. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. Poins today. Very enjoyable crossword from Bradman as always. It’s ages since I blogged a Tramp puzzle, so I was more pleased than ever to see his name this morning. Cast a stone i n Devon (6): SEATON: An anagram (‘cast’) of ‘a stone’. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence; Independent on Sunday 1,734 by Italicus; Azed 2656; Everyman 3,995; Independent 11,421 by Serpent;Redshank cheered me up this morning This was a very enjoyable solve with some clever wordplay and at least one clue that sent me off down a blind alley. His or her initial offering seems a mixed bag. Speedy crossword No 1,467 Published: 18 Nov. * = anagram < = reversed. A steady-as-she-goes Everyman puzzle, with not too much to alarm (or thrill), but a good collection of clues at the shallow end of the pool. Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 15, 2017 As usual Goliath gives us a slew of clever clues and a couple of tough ones. I have commented before on how inventive Paul is. Click search. Makes a change. May 7, 2023 May 7, 2023 by Widdersbel. The Quiptic is 20 years old in November and Hectence was one of the first setters back in the early days. 00 EDT. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence May 22, 2023 by A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. Angela Brazil was (or indeed is) famous for her schoolgirl stories: 6. Agape is a Greco-Christian term referring to pure “love” 11: AVOCADO: Green Party pursues a. Read more >> Categories Guardian 40 Comments. A letter must be inserted into all down and most across clues before solving. The Quiptic is intended as a puzzle for beginners (or those who don’t have a lot of time to spend), and this one fits the bill nicely, with plenty of straightforward anagrams and double definitions among other clearly-indicated. From Monday Prize Crossword on 20 Oct 2008 dd = double definition cd = cryptic definition rev = reversed or reversal ins = insertion cha = charade ha = hidden answer *(fodder) = anagram. Like Niall, I originally read ‘pop performance’ as ‘act of parent,’ whereas it’s actually more gender-specific, ‘act of pa,’ and the stage musical is a show called Rent, which I first came across in the trial of Louise Woodward, in which it emerged that she had been to see the show at least 20 times. A good one for less experienced solvers, I think; for this reason I’ve tried to give full explanations. 00 EDT. A very enjoyable challenge. com For technical problems email userhelp@theguardian. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. May 29, 2023 by Pierre. The first of the extra letters in the word play. A cat, ounce (4) ATOM: A TOM: 9. for “fellow”) contained in ( found in) NEST (a home/a place where, say, an insect breeds or shelters). There will be a meeting for crossword setters and solvers at The George, Borough High Street, Southwark, London, SE1 1NH, coinciding with the annual Times Crossword Championship. Enter your clue into the clue box and 7 question marks into the letter/pattern box. Strangely, there is one clue, 27dn, that appears to be seriously broken but which I solved easily nonetheless. 2,682 Plain; Independent on. 9a and 7d seem rather appropriate words to be clued by anagrams, and 2d has a delightfully odd surface. anagrind = anagram indicator. Favourites 25ac, 1dn, and 18dn. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. So, what happened August 5 th, 1962?. Some tricky clues here. Monday 2 October 2023. Crossword Clues. Sun 20 Oct 2013 19. cd cryptic definition. September 9, 2019 by Pierre. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. Across: 1: GET A ROOM: What’s said when one’s due to be cuddled by future partner (3,1,4): ETA=estimated time of arrivale=”What’s said when one’s due”; inside/”cuddled by” GROOM=”future partner”; &lit definition: 5: CONDOM: Rubber rings held by campaigners next to motorway (6): O and O=”rings”; held by CND=Campaign for. Gaufrid – October 2018. 00 EDT. . The only other herald I think I can remember is the something Poursuivant – 9: ALLOPURINOL – all, N in (pour oil)* – an anti-gout drugQuiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. Independent 9064/Hob. 00 EST. com For technical problems email [email protected]; 8: LABOURING – LABOUR,I,N,G: 9: FA CUP – [wi]F[e],A,CUP(=single supporter) Shouldn’t this be (1,1,3) rather than (2,3) ?: 11: GREEK – R inside GEEK as in “Phil the Greek”: 12: DOORSTEPS – (STOP SOD ER)* Anagrind: “moving” First to go in: 13: FERRARI – (RARE)* inside FRI Anagrind: “get screwed” I had the wordplay but had to. We were 22 on the Friday pub quiz crawl and exactly sixty in number at the main event on Saturday in the Fox and Roman, whose staff excelled themselves in hospitality, organisation and (most importantly!) food and drink. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Sun 12 Mar 2023 20. Come Into Force by Apt. Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. There will be people there who know each other via websites etc, but have never met face-to-face. A good one for less experienced solvers, I think; for this reason I’ve tried to give full explanations. Very bad, the French records (10)Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 4, 2018 I found this a bit harder than usual for Rosa and just as entertaining. A fine offering from Viking. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Quiptic 1,233 by Hectence. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. British dished rupees out for such as Gunga Din (6): BHISTI: BRITISH* less R. Thank you. It’s quite a feat to fill all four 15-letter entries with single words, especially when three of them are full anagrams. I think the puzzle is a mixed bag. (1A) Group to assess for a speaker a passage between seats (7) (1I) Protection for the finger or the limb possibly (7) (3A) Examine source of contagion in medical facility (4) (3F) Top. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence. I did manage it, but only because I was familiar with the ducks – I’d not have got many of them from the wordplay. Across; 6/16: SNOOPER’S CHARTER: Big Brother sort of thing – crap sort here’s no different (8,7) (CRAP SORT HERE’S NO)* AInd: different: 8: EUROS : English otherwise upset, flooded by American cash (5) E[nglish], OR< (otherwise, upset) flooded (covered by) US (American): 11: ROAD TO RUIN: Trump, dismissing politician on radio,. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed (Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. 00 EST. This delayed me. Perhaps the day after a bank holiday is like a Monday, because this had a very Mondayish (or even Quiptic-ish) feel, with very straightforward clueing throughout. ACROSS. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. A pleasant and easy outing with Rosa. Two points for those of you who are coming to the John Henderson Big Birthday Bash Part 1: 1. Guardian Quiptic 1,072/Pan. Brava, Matilda. Across; 1: COBBLERS + PEGS (= wickets = cricket stumps) – this stuff. Print | Accessible version. Loads of envelopes, plus a handful (or two) of other standard devices. Today, I got a double with his Guardian alter ego, Orlando. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Gaufrid in 1950. This is one of those cryptic defs that might really be a double def depending on how loose a definition one expects for one part. Across; 1: PURCHASE dd: 5: ASSENT *(N[orth] + S[outh] + EAST): 9: IN FLIGHT dd. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. January 2, 2020 by Bertandjoyce. 1a, 25a, 2d, 4d, 6d amused me especially. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. When I opened the Guardian website today to see whose puzzle I’d be blogging, I had that familair sense of unease that comes from seeing the name “Araucaria”. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quiptic 1,221 by Hectence. crosswords​@theguardian. +1 250-595. 00 EST Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. I think the collective noun for octopi/octopdid/octoh whatever is ‘army’, and they have lots of arms! 10: APRIL –. 9 Run-down property due proper reconstruction DOER UPPER (DUE PROPER)* with ‘reconstruction’ as the. A real tour de force from Araucaria – one of those puzzles that make your heart sink, when you see so many clues depending on others, especially 10 and 14. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. My clue of the week is 27ac (HYENA) and I am also wowed by 14dn (FIBRILLATE) and 24dn (BLESS). 26d was also yet to yield itself. The usual smattering of clever and nudge nidge wink wink clues as well. Almost as easy as this week’s Listener (OK — last week’s). /lacking taste or style. Cryptic crossword No 29,191. I pencilled BURDEN in over-confidently for 8 Across. The chosen venue is “Shaw’s Booksellers” in St Andrew’s Hill, near Blackfriars, on the evening of Thurs 22nd March, from 6 pm onwards. 6 Ten made to run around without information, forgetting disorder. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Here he comes up with a fresh way of clueing PINAFORE and finds a connection between LANCASHIRE HOTPOT and PRESTONPANS. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. A good deal (4) 8. crosser. Across 1. 10: A TAR + AXIA[l] – defined as the noun ‘calm’. Decorate (5) 13. tennis point. An almost perfect offering from Wanderer… let down, at least in my opinion, by 28ac, where the setter appears to have added in “party” to aid the surface, but it is completely redundant as far as the wordplay is concerned, and the clue could actually have been OK without it. Also, it turns out, some of the bars and borders were missing from the published grid, which is a shame. Comprehend (8) 9. Not the easiest of Quiptics, with a few awkward constructions, but most of it fits the brief for “beginners and those in a hurry” and I’ve attempted to explain where it might not. A fellow repeatedly found in home is most uncool (7) NAFFEST : A + FF (2x/repeatedly, abbrev. Guardian Quiptic 1,228/Matilda. Across: 1. Quiptic crossword No 1,227 Published: 21 May 2023 . And some lovely fun clues – 3 down would have to be my pick of the bunch – I can even hear. The Guardian. Solving time, 41 mins. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence. No cryptic definitions, of course, because Armonie doesn’t do them. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. An almost perfect offering from Wanderer… let down, at least in my opinion, by 28ac, where the setter appears to have added in “party” to aid the surface, but it is completely redundant as far as the wordplay is concerned, and the clue could actually have been OK without it. Everyman No 3,995. Read more >>Quiptic Genius Speedy Everyman Azed More Crosswords. Phi usually appears on Friday rather than today (Thursday). This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Guardian Quiptic 1,246/Placeholder. I am around for most of this morning, so will blog the puzzle. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. The September Genius puzzle has been set by Kite . Announcements. Quiptic 1,227 by Hectence. So, another new setter has wandered into this space. Speedy, Everyman and Azed Email observer. Bartland is inviting you to replace the first T in TWITTER with an S. Across: 1: GET A ROOM: What’s said when one’s due to be cuddled by future partner (3,1,4): ETA=estimated time of arrivale=”What’s said when one’s due”; inside/”cuddled by” GROOM=”future partner”; &lit definition: 5: CONDOM: Rubber rings held by campaigners next to motorway (6): O and O=”rings”; held by CND=Campaign for. A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot. 19: APPRAISESil is still out of the country and back in the Netherlands having his plumbing sorted out, so I’m again standing in for him. I’m happy to share it, now that this website has gone up. Other than that minor quibble, the rest of the puzzle was a fun. There are five letters. Another enjoyable mixed bag from Cinephile. Quiptic crossword No 1,221. (a bugbear of mine), I can’t find much to fault in this very enjoyable puzzle. Tue 27 Jun 2023 19. This type of clue is one of the reasons that many solvers don’t appreciate Anto’s efforts at compiling a Quiptic puzzle. My clue of the week is the delightful and brilliant 5 down (STANDOFFISHNESS) and I also applaud 1,6 (ACHILLES TENDON) and 22,26 (TOWN CENTRE). 1 Complaint one twit receives over a bit of a pint (5,5). Basilisk at his witty best. Didn’t like tar paper just seems a bit weak, too close to tarpaulin. Double definition. I haven’t had chance to see who the compiler is yet, although it seems a bit easier than some of the recent monday puzzles. You can access more than 15,000 crosswords and sudoku and solve puzzles online together. Solving time: about an hour. Contact the crossword editors. Across; 1: SCORDATURA – SCOR[e] + DATURA. 4 . Learn how your comment data is processed. 5 bathrooms. Time on your hands? Stay connected and keep in touch with your friends with our new Puzzles mobile app. Quite a tough week, with lots of good vocabulary to discover. Nothing too troublesome, although a tiny grumble for the purists might be he use of “a” in 12 across. cad clue as definition. Quiptic crossword No 1,227. I thought this was a very well executed theme as discovering the theme did not turn the clues into write-ins, I still had to think hard to work them out.