Never knowingly undersolved
Kruger sends his ‘GREETINGS’ – will EV solvers return the hand of friendship? I think they should!… I thought this was a wonderful and (eventually) accessible puzzle – bit of a slow burner to … Read more >>
Ooo, I struggled a bit with this one. I had what felt like a slow start, but then cold-solved a clutch of down clues which led to a few others, so was happy enough … Read more >>
Wanderer returns this Friday. He returns to try and expose my facade as a solver/blogger. He nearly succeeded.
Today brought me my regular monthly lexical tussle with Phi. I actually found this one towards the easier end of the Phi spectrum. The grid certainly helped, in that it provided a lot … Read more >>
Lots of fun and cleverness today – I enjoyed the neatness of e.g. 7dn, 14dn and my favourite 18dn more than the write in, parse quite a bit later 26ac and 1dn. Thanks to Boatman.
I thought I was in a for an easy ride when the first two acrosses were write-ins; things slowed down after that, but I made steady progress and found it a satisfying solve. … Read more >>
It’s been a while since I blogged an Anax crossword . I’ve always found Anax’s puzzles require a good deal of lateral thinking and I get a great deal of … Read more >>
Thankfully a reasonably kind first challenge for us on fifteensquared.
Monday Prize Crossword / Mar 9, 2015
After last week’s more challenging Gaff we’re back on familiar territory with a pleasant Dante.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 7, 2015 I enjoyed this Magwitch puzzle, finding it fairly easy except for 8d, 10a and 20d. My clue of the week is 12 (PROFITEER) … Read more >>
A somewhat tricky Pasquale, he does like his obscure words doesn’t he?
There is never anything new to say about Dac. As usual this is a thoroughly neat and satisfactory crossword. I found it a little harder than Dac usually is, although when I look back at the clues there seems to be no reason for this.
Definitions underlined.
Another fine crossword from Aardvark, very enjoyable all the way thorugh. Thank you Aardvark.
Fond memories of Dysart puzzles – usually pretty tough but highly enjoyable & satisfying. Preamble: Five characters involved in a 6 18 are hidden in the grid. Their target is invisible, but … Read more >>
An interesting twist to this puzzle from Crosophile – at first sight, a rather odd reference in 1AC to seven other clues. It took us a while to solve this clue, and the … Read more >>