Never knowingly undersolved
Paul makes his expected weekly appearance with a reasonably straightforward puzzle, with a wide variety in the style of the answers. Thanks, Paul. Across 1 White powder pocketed by outlaw from a Christian … Read more >>
Another Phi-day challenge today. As usual, all good fun, not too tricky, but definitely not a write-in either. We’re sure there is a theme in there somewhere, but we haven’t been able … Read more >>
A timely offering from Falcon.
Very enjoyable – many favourites: 1ac, 20ac, 23ac, 28ac and 16dn.
Morph’s latest puzzle offers today’s cruciverbal entertainment. I thought that this was a medium-difficulty puzzle by Morph, and I made steady progress through it until coming to something of a standstill in the … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Jul 4, 2016
A surprise attack from Mudd on a day I was expecting another Dante.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 2, 2016
I thought this a good straightforward puzzle. Often when one reads ‘straightforward’ in an introduction it is a eupemism for either ‘too easy’ or ‘dull’ – in this case not so. I didn’t coast though this nor did I find it boring. In the race to provide ever more new and innovative clues I think good straightforward puzzles sometimes get overlooked. Thank you Jason.
Some good Puckish fun today… … with a bit of a numerical theme around the boundary. I’m baffled by 26a – commenters to the rescue please.. Thanks to Puck … Read more >>
Dac provides us with his usual Wednesday challenge I thought this was to towards the easier end of Dac’s difficulty spectrum. The only thing that gave me real difficulty was … Read more >>
I think Ifor can soon be classed as a prolific setter of Inquisitor puzzles that make you think. Please note that this blog is best viewed on a desktop or a laptop. There … Read more >>
One or two pleasing wrinkles in a very fair Tuesday puzzle from Sayang, a new setter to me.
Scorpion is never all that easy, but this wasn’t too bad. There were still several clues that detained me, but apart from one or two minor quibbles, everything seems to be fair.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
A themed offering from Boatman
Pan’s turn in the Quiptic slot this week.