Never knowingly undersolved
Many thanks to Gaufrid for standing in for us while we were out of internet range the last couple of weeks. Also thanks to Gaufrid and Pierre for sorting out a blog at … Read more >>
Enjoyed this a lot, and got stuck on the top half for a while. Favourites were both 5ac/dn, 9ac and 23dn.
Been a while since I saw Hamilton on a Friday. Today’s FT challenge was meaty, refreshing and in parts, fiendish. I had to refer to googling to confirm a couple of my solutions, and still have one clue whose complete parsing eludes me. In all, a very welcome challenge so thanks to Hamilton.
I received an email from our hosting company yesterday regarding the site’s move to a new server, quote: “We will be migrating your website(s) and email to our new, high performance hosting platform on … Read more >>
Thanks, Gozo, for a clever crossword with some good clues.
Although Philistine has been setting in the Guardian since July 2011, I don’t ever seem to have blogged one of his puzzles, at least not for some time. But better late than never, … Read more >>
Knut’s latest offering fills the Thursday compiling slot this week. And a first perusal of the clues suggests that this puzzle has not appeared today by chance: the clues are littered with references … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 31, 2015
Some might say ‘just another Dante’ but this crossword took me a bit longer than usual (mainly due to the SW).
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 29, 2015 I was very pleased to find a new Rosa Klebb puzzle waiting for me last weekend. And I enjoyed solving it despite a … Read more >>
A difficult puzzle which I made harder for myself than necessary.
A tricky little number from Don today.
Another puzzle from Dac with a set of good surfaces to the clues, but … I am left wondering about the frequent (well, three) use of the word ‘wanting’ in … Read more >>
First my (Hi) very grateful thanks to Ho for his solution to this difficult offering from Phi. I was sailing back from Devon in rough seas and not a little rain at the … Read more >>
Nothing to “gurn” about here.
The usual very nice workout from Raich; not really demanding, but enough to cause someone like me to stop and think from time to time. I had no quibbles with any of the clues: they all seemed to be sound and some of them, like (and here I look through the clues to find ones to quote and nothing really stands out either positively or negatively, but perhaps) 6dn and 7dn were good.