Never knowingly undersolved
We expected a Phi puzzle today but were more than happy to see a different name – the last time we blogged a Monk puzzle was back in October. There were a few … Read more >>
At last the Guardian has realised the change to daylight savings time (more or less; I suspect that the solution is still late arriving). The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26865.
(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.) A challenge, in some places, from Crucible, … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A challenge, in some places, from Crucible, even after twigging the theme. Thanks to … Read more >>
It is Knut who is providing our cruciverbal workout this morning, a compiler whose puzzles I get to solve and blog only occasionally. And full marks to Knut and his editor for topicality! … Read more >>
At least I didn’t have to wait for this one…
Monday Prize Crossword / Apr 11, 2016
As expected, another Dante to start off another FT week.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 10, 2016 Ah joy! Another Rosa. My clue of the week is 19d (HERALDRY) which is one of the more difficult clues and one with … Read more >>
Had to wait for this…
My thanks to Gaufrid for standing in for me last week, while I was having a great time walking in North Mallorca. An enjoyable puzzle from Paul, with a perhaps slightly obscure theme … Read more >>
A good puzzle from Aardvark, I think. I crashed my bike yesterday evening and everything is still a bit hazy, I think I might still be a little concussed. I also have to type one handed as I can’t move my right arm much. Off to see the doctor now so no idea when I’ll be back.
Dac treats us to a trademark puzzle today The surfaces of the clues are very smooth, some of the definitions are well hidden and the entries are all common words … Read more >>
A challenging puzzle from Ifor this week with an interesting twist to the clues. The preamble told us that "The puzzle depicts something that did not happen today, despite a … Read more >>
This was kind. As Richard Osman says on Pointless, it fell into my lap and I had no difficulty with any of the across clues, and I much enjoyed this gentle but pleasant puzzle from Hieroglyph. When I saw that they all referred to 1D it was clear that solving that clue was going to be important. Fortunately it was easily solvable and everything went in easily thereafter, far more so than it did yesterday in what then seemed to me a rather tricky offering. And there I was, thinking that Tuesdays were more difficult than Mondays.
My apologies for the lack of links: if I’d been really keen I’d have linked to something by each of the 1Ds, but I have recently moved to Firefox and haven’t yet become comfortable with the moving between tabs — previous sites I’ve visited are sometimes up there at the top, sometimes not, and I’m terrified that if I move away I’ll never get back. Actually there is an apology from Firefox up there in a tab at the top telling me that they are having trouble recovering my windows and tabs.
All the definitions in the down clues are underlined. There wouldn’t have been much point in giving the definitions for the acrosses because they are all 1Ds.