Never knowingly undersolved
A nice mixture of clueing devices in Arachne’s web today. Mostly not too difficult, but I was fooled by a hidden answer till right at the end, and there are a couple of … Read more >>
The preamble stated "in every clue, the wordplay leads to the answer together with an extra letter not to be entered in the grid. In clue order these give the first line of … Read more >>
I posted the other day saying that in my opinion Raich’s puzzles were the easiest (but among the best) of those in the Indy. At first this statement seemed to be coming back … Read more >>
This is a quick and simple stroll through the park. Very straightforward and easy. ACROSS 1 SUPERB Ins of UP (riding) in SERB (European) 4 MAGNETIC Ins of NET (trap)in MAGIC 9 OVOID … Read more >>
A nice easy puzzle to start the week, and the year with. Rufus’s trademark cryptic and double definitions, anagrams, and clever surfaces are here, and some possibly nautical references also. Thanks Rufus. And … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, CD=cryptic def, DD=double def, sp=spoonerism When I saw this was a Tyrus themed puzzle, my temptation was to start hitting the cheat button straight away. If it hadn’t been … Read more >>
It took me a little while to get into Beale’s style of clue, but once I got used to it, things went quickly.
Nick: Quite a lot going on in this Azed christmas special, of which I quite enjoyed completing, and also the challenge to be able to blog it. This was a sort of compendium of … Read more >>
Puzzles 1211 – 1262
The preamble told us that “Each solution contains a two-letter symbol for a chemical element, which needs to be transmuted into another before it is entered in the grid. Each transmutation changes both … Read more >>