Never knowingly undersolved
As usual, a Phi puzzle for Friday There are a few cartoon and fictional characters about – PLUTO, EASTER BUNNY, SANTA and XENA, but I don’t think they are enough to … Read more >>
A tour de force from Morph today: many of the clues have clever wordplay and cunningly-disguised definitions. I found it all on the hard side, but absolutely worth it. And Morph’s clues have become pleasantly pithy, something that at one time it was not always possible to say.
Just the type of crossword we love. Three cheers for Alberich!
A fairly typical Chifonie puzzle, with lots of charades and other straightforward constructions, but none the worse for that. A couple of answers may be unfamiliar to some. but they’re clearly clued. Thanks … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Nov 9, 2015
A gentle if somewhat unexciting crossword by Monday regular Crux.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 7, 2015
More of the good stuff from Monk.
The crossword gods seem to have it in for me this week, first the Indy, now the Guardian web sites not working.
Another Wednesday, another excellent Dac puzzle. As always, excellent surfaces and very fair clueing. This puzzle includes three proper names – not what we have come to expect from Dac. No criticism, just … Read more >>
Preamble: Five across answers of a kind are entered as anagrams, representing a thematic process: wordplay in these clues leads to original answer, definition to grid entry. From 12 down clues, a letter … Read more >>
Radian’s latest puzzle lay in store for us this morning, although only in the afternoon is my blog of it being posted, for which I apologise. This was a medium-difficulty puzzle, in my … Read more >>
Couldn’t finish it!
RatkojaRiku is away on business and may not be able to publish his blog until mid/late afternoon.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26731.
Once again the Indy’s web site isn’t showing today’s puzzle, the puzzle wasn’t as hard as eXternal sometimes produces fortunately.