From cold comfort to hot gossip, there is ingenious construction and of-the-moment bullying in the pick of the broadsheets’ cryptics
I hope you enjoyed the Easter weekend’s special puzzles. In place of spoilers, here are a couple of recent feats of construction.
8d As a result of climate change, the earth is a degree closer to game over? (7,6)
2d Delicate thing currently getting criticism in some quarters (9)
[ synonym for ‘currently’ + synonym for ‘criticism’, both inside (‘in’) abbrevs for points of the compass (‘some quarters’) ]
[ NOW + FLAK, both inside S E ]
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
21/5d Serve alcohol in a quandary — might one be 16 or 18? (6-6)
[ anagram (“in a quandary”) of SERVEALCOHOL ]
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