Never knowingly undersolved
Sorry about the late post; it’s been a very busy week. This was a fun puzzle from Brummie, with a nice theme of … … the BEACH BOYS (9, 26a), and their songs. … Read more >>
Oh cripes, it’s Nimrod again. This time I managed two and a half answers before reaching for internet-based help, and perhaps a couple more before dissecting the Crossword Compiler data file for pointers. … Read more >>
MynoT is a fairly tricky setter, but his puzzles are always worth the challenge. Here, like many of his recent EVs we had an alphabetical jigsaw, with sixteen answers requiring thematic modification before … Read more >>
Struggled to finish this, with several clues holding me up even with full crossers, and had to Google 17dn. Lots to enjoy – favourites were 1ac, 19ac, 22ac, 25ac and 18dn. Thanks, Vlad.
Not too sure about my parsing for 20dn.
Will there, won’t there be a theme to Phi’s offering this week? Actually yes, four of Will’s characters from Shakespeare’s play (in the nina across the bottom row) appear in the grid (in … Read more >>
A witty, funny and delightful challenge from WANDERER got my Friday off to a very pleasant start. Thanks Wanderer!!
As with yesterday’s Brendan in the Guardian, I downloaded this one on my way to bed. The difference was that I was able to solve several clues whilst it was printing out and … Read more >>
I had been tipped off that Tramp was today’s setter, so was looking forward to this one. Lots of good fun as usual, though without (as far as I can see) any particular … Read more >>
This Thursday morning has seen my first blogging encounter with Serpent, who appears to be a fairly new supplier of Indy daily cryptics. For me, this was an enjoyable puzzle pitched at exactly … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Oct 24, 2016
For the second week in a row [very unusual for the FT] a Dante puzzle.
And a friendly one it was.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 22, 2016
I enjoyed this very much indeed. Thank you Gozo.
Well this one was certainly a challenge! I printed it out on my way to bed last night (or rather early this morning) and, as usual, had a quick run through the clues before … Read more >>
This is a puzzle with allusions common to many previous Tees puzzles. Tees likes his classics, history and mythology and the clues in today’s puzzle makes reference to characters or incidents … Read more >>
Eclogue is a fairly regular setter of Inquisitor puzzles. This is his eighth. I have blogged a couple of the previous one in January and November 2014. The preamble told … Read more >>