Never knowingly undersolved
The usual very pleasing crossword from Phi, with the musical references that we have come to expect. He is always easy enough to understand once a clue is solved, but not I find always all that easy to get one’s teeth into. Perhaps this is because his definitions are so well-concealed.
Definitions underlined.
It’s many months since I blogged a Tramp puzzle and so I was delighted to land this one. I was a bit put out at first by the capital letters in 14,10, 20ac … Read more >>
A little too clever for me, with much of the parsing done after the fact – I’m still unsure on 8dn, 17dn and 21dn. Favourites were 13ac, 21ac, and 18dn. Thanks, Puck
There…
An interesting but tricky puzzle from Rodriguez today. We tend to tackle crosswords in numerical order, and we had considerable difficulty with several of the across clues, particularly on the right hand side … Read more >>
An early blog for a change
Monday Prize Crossword / Aug 8, 2016
For the second time in a row, I found the Dante offering a lot more challenging than the Rufus puzzle (at another place).
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 6, 2016
Fifth time lucky?
This was the second time that I had come to the Wednesday puzzle expecting to have to cross swords with Dac and finding Hoskins instead. My first experience of Hoskins had Sunderland A.F.C. … Read more >>
A Brexit themed puzzle from Julius, and I’m not going to comment any further on that subject! Thanks Julius and congratulations/commiserations to you as appropriate.
In a hurry as I’m away next week when this blog is due to be published. I started to write the blog before completing the grid, but had solved the outstanding issues by the … Read more >>
Mostly quite gentle by this setter’s standards, with some very easy clues to get us started, but also some trickier ones,
Simplicity with some elegance from Gurney today.
Crosophile has given us what I think is a theme and message free crossword today. The first few acrosses went in very quickly but it then took me a while to … Read more >>
Second time out for the setter. I suspected it was a new setter but Gaufrid blogged one back in May.