Never knowingly undersolved
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Another Guardian slip today, which as of time of posting has not been rectified. … Read more >>
A brilliant stunner of an FT challenge!! Wanderer – If you are reading this, take a bow! I dont think I can adequately extol the attributes of this puzzle but suffices to say that I shall eagerly await more grids from this setter.
All perfectly satisfactory.
Tyrus is an occasional setter of weekday Independent puzzles. I think he is seen more regularly on Saturdays. . I took a while to solve this and didn’t always see the … Read more >>
The puzze may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26475.
Monday Prize Crossword/Jan 12 Exactly the same grid as last week’s prize puzzle, different setter yet more or less similar level, quality and enjoyment. For which many thanks to Crux. Definitions are underlined … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of January 10, 2015 This was one of the toughest FT Weekend puzzles in my recent memory and a surprise after the last one by Redshank which … Read more >>
What new is there to say about Dac? This was one of his easiest, many of the clues not really very different from those in The Times Quick Cryptic, but the surfaces were as always perfect. I wondered if Dac was amusing himself by having all clues with their definition at the beginning — certainly this seemed to be the case at first — but it soon became clear that he wasn’t.
Definitions underlined.
Spot on in every way, not much else to say! Thanks Artexlen.
I’m going to echo Andrew’s preamble to his blog of the most recent Otterden puzzle: ‘I haven’t been particularly impressed by Otterden’s puzzles in the past, and I’m afraid this one has done … Read more >>
Nutmeg‘s “Any other Name” came equal fourth in 2014, and her puzzles rank among my personal favourites. A small grid: 11×11. One letter must be omitted from the first eight across answers, … Read more >>
I’ve been extremely busy today, so sorry for the late posting, which, due to the time constraint, is barer than usual. Thanks to Sayang. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Clean stroke … Read more >>
It’s Scorpion today and it’s Tuesday so we expected there may be more to the puzzle than usual. When we checked previous Scorpion puzzles we noticed that there was another clue involving … Read more >>
Found this very slow going, but ultimately rewarding…
This was a good puzzle from Provis, with a number of excellent surface readings. No obscurities, but I’m not sure I’d recommend this one as an entry-level puzzle to someone who really was … Read more >>