Never knowingly undersolved
A plain Azed this week with its usual precise cluing leading to a mix of common and obscure words. I was held up for a while with the misdirection at … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) As commented by Pee Dee last week, are the IoS puzzles generally getting more … Read more >>
A Saturday in May – a tussle with Nestor. Always a taxing time Lots of interesting clues from Nestor. Certainly not a run of the mill crossword – barely a simple clue in … Read more >>
A fun prize puzzle, this week from Philistine. (I think I’ve been quite lucky in getting good puzzles to post about on the prize puzzle rota, since the weekday Guardian crosswords I’ve done … Read more >>
This week, there was the second Shark puzzle since the clocks went forward at the end of March. It probably meant that we had a date-related theme in front of us. I’ve had … Read more >>
A fantastic puzzle from Alberich which I got around to solving only pretty late in the day. But it was well worth the wait, with an eclectic mix of innovative cluing and precise wordplay. Thorough enjoyed this. Had to google to confirm a couple of responses but otherwise all good !!
Another tough but entertaining work-out from Screw. Looking back at the preamble to my blog of his last puzzle, I see that I mentioned how the parsing came rather later in some cases … Read more >>
Phi-day again, and the usual well-crafted puzzle. We always look for a theme or nina in Phi’s puzzles, but initially we couldn’t see either in this one. However, Phi is playing … Read more >>
Klingsor has provided us with our cruciverbal workout this Thursday. I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, finding it medium-to-hard on the difficulty scale and definitely a puzzle that I had to chip away at, … Read more >>
Lots of nice clues and surfaces…
A pleasant opening to the day. Thanks, Wanderer
Monday Prize Crossword/May 11, 2015
A friendly Falcon crossword, surely very much welcomed by those who miss the Everyman old style. It can be found here , just in case.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 9, 2015 Another fine Mudd this time, one that proved just a little more challenging than average for me with a couple of terms I … Read more >>
A good old fashioned crossword from Magwitch. Sometimes setters seem to be falling over themselves to be novel and inventive (which of course is a good thing) but I also like getting the some quality plain puzzles to solve and blog too. I feel they get a bit overlooked. Thank you Magwitch.
I usually don’t have too much trouble with Paul’s puzzles these days, but I found this one hard to get started on, and then hard to finish. Looking back, there’s nothing particularly obscure, … Read more >>