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Crosswords

  • Quick cryptic
    Quick cryptic crossword No 64

  • Prize
    Prize crossword No 29,727

  • Quiptic
    Quiptic crossword No 1,335

  • Genius
    Genius crossword No 264

Other puzzles

  • Natural sponges from the Greek island Kalymnos, pictured in baskets underneath a yellow net

    The quiz
    What strange device was found in 1901 by sponge divers? The Saturday quiz

  • Sudoku
    Sudoku 6,943 medium

  • Killer sudoku
    Killer sudoku 975

  • Chalk drawing - group of question marks<br>CCDCY5 Chalk drawing - group of question marks

    Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle
    Did you solve it? Is “yes” the answer to this question?

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  3. Football fans in number-seven shirts

    Crossword editor’s desk: seven days of puzzles a week, kicking off on Sundays

  4. A police box on the lawn of the museum of Natural History, Oxford, 15 May 2001

    Crossword editor’s desk: whatchamacallits and gubbins

Prize solutions

Winners of Crossword 29,721
Emma Janska, Wellingborough; Sylvia Jenaber, Liverpool; Jaxx Easterbrook, Sandown; Mark Brown, Lairg; Peter Hunt, Whitstable
  • Empty road with tumbleweed

    Annotated solutions
    An experiment reaches the end of the road

  • Annotated solutions for Prize 29,177

  • Annotated solutions for Prize 29,171

  • Annotated solutions for Prize 29,165

Genius solutions

Winner of Genius No 263
John Capper, London

  • Annotated solutions for Genius 242

  • Annotated solutions for Genius 241

  • Annotated solutions for Genius 240

  • Annotated solutions for Genius 239

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