Never knowingly undersolved
Morph is this week’s Thursday compiler and offers me my first Morph solve/blog of 2015. I found this puzzle a tough one to get into, although I knew that my perseverance would be … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Jan 19 Fairly typical Dante puzzle with – rather unusual – one clue that seems sort of problematic to me (9ac). Definitions are underlined wherever possible and/or appropriate. Across 1 HUBRIS Shrub I cultivated … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of January 17, 2015 This struck me as a fairly typical Mudd with a few stand-out clues. Top among them are 1a (BANISTER), 27a (SPRING) and 3d … Read more >>
Another solid over from Monk, no loose balls at all. Didn’t get me out this time though, and I even managed to find the nina. Thanks Monk, great stuff.
Quixote delivers well clued crosswords where the wordplay leaves you in little doubt whether your entry is correct or not. Having said that, I was interested by the use of … Read more >>
A quick, enjoyable solve with very tidy clueing throughout. Favourites 25ac and 1dn. Thanks, Chifonie.
Samuel is a prolific setter for many publications that feature barred crosswords and his crosswords usually have a quirky theme. I think Samuel is now the editor of the Enigmatic Variations series in … Read more >>
A pleasant crossword from Eimi. Of course there are references to football and pop music, but I was expecting those. If there is a Nina I can’t see it; it all seems quite straightforward.
Definitions underlined where appropriate.
A very welcome return by Brendan after an absence of more than six months. I thought this was going to be a walkover after filling in the NW corner very quickly, but things … Read more >>
What’s not to like in a puzzle with good surface stories and unambiguous cryptic parsing?
An extremely enjoyable challenge from Quiptic regular Pan.
Well it’s Monday, it’s Rufus, it’s mostly easy. You knew that before coming here though.
This one seemed quite hard at first, but things did fall into place steadily enough. Lots of nice long anagrams to work through, too. I’m not certain I’ve quite nailed the parsing of … Read more >>
A harder than usual puzzle from Azed this week, with a 13 by 11 grid, including a higher than average number of & lit clues.