Never knowingly undersolved
Tees is occupying the Thursday slot, one which is visited by a wide range of compilers over the course of a year. I enjoyed this one immensely, solving the longer entries at the … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Nov 24 Neat puzzle by Crux with a few cross-references thrown in this time. Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. Across 1 ONE BY ONE HM’s autobiography, perhaps, in single … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 22, 2014 Some people have mentioned this before and, on this occasion, even I am struck by Mudd’s heavy use of double definitions. He starts … Read more >>
A fun puzzle from puzzle from Gozo of a form I have not seen before. You can download a PDF of the puzzle from the FT website here.
What is there to say about a Dac puzzle that hasn’t been said before? I could very easily just link to, or copy and paste from, the preamble I wrote four weeks ago. … Read more >>
Well I’m back from a land down under and first up is Imogen, not really the name you want whilst jet lagged.
Preamble: Ten entries, clued without definition, may be sorted into pairs to provide five names associated with a protagonist, X. In all remaining clues, single extra letters involved in wordplay spell a further … Read more >>
Three checked letters in a seven-letter answer is bad enough; two in a five-letter answer is even worse. Unless, some say, Radian has been constrained by a Nina and has been forced to use answers of this type. If he has (and of course I can’t see it) then perhaps this is justified. And anyway it’s only my view (but also that of some eminent others, I might add).
Pity, because much of this crossword is good, and there are some excellent clues. I particularly enjoyed 1dn.
Definitions underlined.
Typical Tuesday fare here…
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26432.
Hectence returns to the Quiptic slot with a puzzle that I thought had just the right amount of head-scratching required to get the sluggish Monday morning brain into gear.
A fairly typical Rufus puzzle, with the accustomed mix of anagrams and double and cryptic definitions [a couple of which I found a bit puzzling]. Thanks to him for a genial start to … Read more >>
Always a little smile when I see that it’s Raich for my Monday Indy blog. Enjoyed this one, but there were some that I struggled to see and parse. It yielded in the … Read more >>