Never knowingly undersolved
The usual enjoyable crossword from Phi today. It is, one would think, on the easy side for him because so many of the answers can be parsed simply, but I didn’t find it all that easy and failed completely on 2dn.
In a Phi crossword there are seldom clues that really hit you between the eyes, but everything is very pleasant and efficient and it all seems to be sound.
An intriguing challenge from Bradman, thanks to whom for a busy Friday morning. I got through the right half of the grid pretty quickly but then had to plod through the remainder. 13ac I believe has a typo in the solution and a couple of other clues could have been ‘stronger’ in my opinion. Overall, a satisfactory start to Friday crossword solving!
Very pleasant. Thank you, Magwitch.
Good-quality stuff from Imogen. In the reverse of my usual pattern I started off quite quickly, with the help 1a and 1d coming early, but had a few problems later on, especially in … Read more >>
As it’s Thursday, we expected something a little trickier than usual – and Knut certainly delivered! The last Knut puzzle that we blogged in July was themed around the Greek financial crisis. This … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Oct 5, 2015
Good crossword from Mudd, enjoyable as ever (despite an annoying typo in 1ac).
Today saw my monthly encounter with Dac, who is occupying his customary Wednesday slot. For me, this was towards the easy end of the Dac spectrum, and I made swift progress through the … Read more >>
Very nice – a challenge rather than a struggle if you know what I mean. Thanks Redshank.
Bonxie returns for the third time this year after a rather barren couple of years.
Shark’s last offering in the series was number 1370, yielding a picture of a hand, which I much enjoyed, so I had high hopes for this one. I remember that we found the clues … Read more >>
A straightforward puzzle from Chifonie, with elegant cluing and surfaces throughout and some inventive definitions. Thank you, Chifonie – I enjoyed it. Across 1 Declared a vicar initially made a mistake (7) AVERRED … Read more >>
Topical fare from NEO
After the themeless crossword from Dac I blogged last Wednesday, this crossword from Hieroglyph fairly obviously has a theme The theme is one that will appeal to some solvers, but … Read more >>
This is Anto’s fourth Quiptic. I have blogged two of the previous three, and I really hope that one of our other Quiptic bloggers gets the next one, because I really can’t find … Read more >>