Never knowingly undersolved
Crosophile’s Independent on Sunday puzzles seem to me to be pitched just right — fairly straightforward clues, but with some nice little deceptive twists, and plenty of amusing surface reading. Across 1 SNOWY … Read more >>
How lucky am I – A Tyrus puzzle to blog again. Perhaps, it might be time to start possibly cogitating a few answers. So a theme word this week, which is needed to … Read more >>
A lovely puzzle from Crucible, and on the easy side for a prize puzzle, I thought. Once you’ve solved the clues, the rubric reads “Five COLOURS of the RAINBOW appear as solutions, not … Read more >>
This week – straight clues, 5 unclued entries and elements from a quotation around the circumference. Sounds quite easy for an EV? And so it proved to be. Relatively simple clues (for an … Read more >>
“Twelve clues lack a common definition”, said the opening line to the puzzle, but even after I was 50% through I hadn’t figured out what the definition was. Some clues (23a, 26d) did … Read more >>
I commented on the most recent Puck puzzle that it seemed to lack his characteristic playfulness. No such complaint with this one, which I found fun to solve. There is a range of … Read more >>
Well after yesterday’s mauling by Nestor I was quite relieved to see a Phi in normal Friday Indy mode and give me back some belief that I can do cryptic crosswords. This seems … Read more >>
Having enjoyed my last encounter with Nestor a month ago, from which I emerged with my solver’s pride more or less intact, I was relishing the prospect of solving this one when I … Read more >>
Christmas has come early at the FT: despite us not yet being into double figures on the advent calendar, Redshank has dished up a spicy pudding of festive allusions. It doesn’t take much … Read more >>
I never know quite what to expect with Brummie, and this one started off slowly, but in the end it turned out to be a very enjoyable puzzle, in difficulty I would say … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/28 Nov A Crux crossword that most certainly will not cause a storm of comments here. It’s a nice enough puzzle, but it is like Cincinnus recently said to me: “You really … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 26 We have another fine Mudd puzzle this week. I especially like 10A (DISPLACE), 29A (TRAIN SET) and 5D (EXIT). Initially I got one clue, … Read more >>
Lovely stuff as ever from Dac. I found some of this very tough with a lot of cleverly hidden definitions and struggled with the 2 long cryptic def. clues. I cannot find a … Read more >>
Yet another quality crossword from Cinephile and another pleasure to blog. I never cease to be amazed how he continues to produce such good crosswords at the rate he does and keeps them … Read more >>
The preamble told us that "solvers must fill in the central cell and highlight the poet and the poem in the completed grid (14 squares in total, in a logical order). The perimeter … Read more >>