Never knowingly undersolved
Here’s Rufus with a fairly typical Monday medley of anagrams and double or cryptic definitions and a generous sprinkling of his trademark nautical references [plus five educational ones]. Thanks to him for the … Read more >>
(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) Another enjoyable Quiptic from Hectence, thank you. … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) Another enjoyable Quiptic from Hectence, thank you. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across … Read more >>
Very few scribbles on the magazine this week, suggesting relatively smooth sailing. I did get held up in the top right for a bit, not helping myself by being convinced 14 across would … Read more >>
A 13 by 11 grid for this week’s plain Azed puzzle. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, I can’t include a picture of the completed puzzle.
Hoskins made his debut in the Monday Indy slot in September, so this is his second outing. Like my fellow blogger Neal, who covered that debut puzzle, I found this a bit of … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3605.
26 misprints in the definition spelling out 3 evvents and 25ac to deduce followed by a rearrangement of one answer to get a fourth event. Sounds like fun. It took a whle to … Read more >>
I write this as an atrocity unfolds in Paris. Sometimes there are more important things in life than crosswords. So this week’s report is brief I did enjoy this puzzle with some typically … Read more >>
What a super puzzle! – and one most worthy of the Prize slot. I found it a challenge but an absorbing one – I was never completely stuck and the clues unravelled at a very … Read more >>
Looking back – it’s a long time since I blogged an Otterden puzzle – I find I’m once again going to echo the opening words of Andrew’s preamble to the most recent puzzle: … Read more >>
This was I thought one of Phi’s harder crosswords. The simplicity of the parsing in many cases doesn’t reflect the ease of solving.
But as always and as we have come to expect he has set a fair challenge full of good clues.
A neat pleasant challenge from Falcon today. Generally easy with a dash of inventive cluing that kept me away from a complete solve just a tad longer. I did learn a couple of new meanings to words that I already did know. Thanks Falcon, for a good workout today.
This is the third Knut puzzle that we have blogged. We have enjoyed the others with their topical themes but for some reason or other this did not hit the spot today. Maybe … Read more >>
Lots of well-clued fun from Qaos today…