Never knowingly undersolved
A nice solid cryptic offering from Klingsor here – with some interesting surface readings and mis-directions… No obvious theme or nina that I could see. There seems to be a higher than ‘average’ number … Read more >>
Whodunnit?
Take away the “Where’s my prize?” and “No i at the newsagent’s today, please would you send IQ” emails from my inbox, and there are still a significant number of correspondents bemoaning harsh difficulty levels. I find this quite hard to fathom, particular in the year just past.
A complex preamble to say the least. Two set s of clue amendments to produce two messages – extra letters to be removed from the clue and wordplay with an additional letter. Add … Read more >>
I think this was toughest prize puzzle we’ve done in a while, although that was partly due to putting in the wrong answer in 23 down (see below) – lovely clues, though, and … Read more >>