Never knowingly undersolved
This was my quickest Azed solve for quite a while: I found I’d written in 13 answers after my first pass though the clues, and most of the rest followed easily (albeit with … Read more >>
Just like a London bus…you wait ages for a Saturday Nimrod to blog, then two come along in a row (well, five weeks apart, but in a row on my rota slot). Indy … Read more >>
A puzzle to mark a 50th anniversary from Pasquale this week.
With the Olympics starting at approximately the same time as this puzzle’s submission date, is Nutmeg going to give us some sporting records to decipher…will this be a marathon or a sprint?…or perhaps … Read more >>
First of all apologies from all for the extreme lateness of this blog. I have knocked this blog together at lunchtime after finding that no blog appeared on Monday and that jetdoc was … Read more >>
A riveting challenge from Wanderer. I was ok all the way until I reached the SE corner, where I was left to my devices trying to crack the remaining clues and needed help getting over the line. Thanks Geoff!! 27d still needs a well-parsed solution.
(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 Goldilocks cryptic, not too hard … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A Goldilocks cryptic, not too hard and not too easy for me. Thanks to … Read more >>
Quite naturally, it falls to Phi to round off this latest set of mid-week puzzles. For me, this was perhaps harder than the average Phi crossword, although I am under the weather at … Read more >>
A quick post today
A challenging crossword from Serpent today. The wordplay in one clue completely defeats me. There is a clear theme in today’s puzzle with the clue to the middle row clue … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26954.
Monday Prize Crossword / Jul 25, 2016
While I more or less, just like others, breezed through the same day’s Rufus, this puzzle by his alter ego I found quite hard.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 23, 2016
It’s always a real pleasure to see Brendan’s name on a puzzle – and thank goodness he’s back more regularly again now. The solving was quite straightforward but it soon became obvious that … Read more >>