Never knowingly undersolved
We found this an enjoyable thematic puzzle and have to congratulate Hieroglyph on managing to get six thematic entries (which occupied twelve of the 29 answers) into the grid without having to resort … Read more >>
Good morning, the usual Rufusian mixture of stuff and a grid that shouldn’t provoke too many whinges.
*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone This was a puzzle in the style of Punk and other compilers who like to get a bit of humour and … Read more >>
Orlando’s got the hang of this Quiptic thing, you know. A delightful puzzle, full of clear cluing and fine surface readings. I’ll be farming this one out to my friends who are just … Read more >>
I finally got round to solving this on the train from York to Cornwall, having moved last week to live in York. People in the seats behind us were solving a quick crossword … Read more >>
A tough week for me, though I made life difficult for myself by inventing a word for 1 across and writing it in without thinking to even check. Well, all the letters of … Read more >>
A very enjoyable Sunday puzzle from Poins once again, with plenty to think about and work through. Surface readings are remarkably smooth, resulting in some very well-hidden definitions. I faltered a bit in … Read more >>
My first Everyman blog, alas the normal blogging software is not available to post this so it’s a bit old school today. Not overly difficult, recent ones have been more so I gather. … Read more >>
A tough but satisfying challenge this month from a setter whose name is new to me.
A plain competition Azed this week. I enjoyed this, especially the two clues where there were two sets of wordplay leading to the entry – SCANDAL SHEETS (34 across) and LIND … Read more >>
Wow!! Where to start? Nimrod threw everything at us in this puzzle – thematic entries, linked clues, some rather tenuous synonyms and some original and inventive wordplay. It was an extraordinary choice for … Read more >>
I didn’t know when solving this puzzle that I was going to be blogging it otherwise I would have made some notes at the time. I only found out several days later that … Read more >>
A puzzle by ‘Gila’ this week. Will it prove to be a monster? If it does, at least they’re ‘normally not fatal to adult humans’, which is a relief.
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) An early morning wake-up call didn’t … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) An early morning wake-up call didn’t do much for me when solving this. But … Read more >>