Never knowingly undersolved
Preamble: Steps to be followed: 1 Make amendments to asterisked clues in either of two ways before solving. 2 Read yellow cells in row order to find a theme word. 3 Complete the … Read more >>
Knut has provided today’s puzzle, which has turned out to be a tribute puzzle. It doesn’t take long to release that Knut is paying his own personal tribute to UK singer-songwriter George Michael … Read more >>
Tougher than the average Tuesday with some challenging multiple wordplays and a theme thrown in for fun.
The puzzle may e found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27090. It comes with:
Special instructions: An anniversary tribute
To be fair, there were many standard Quiptic-like clues, but the cryptic-definition clues were, I thought, a bit over-, well, cryptic for a Quiptic. Notwithstanding all that, thanks to Anto. Definitions are underlined … Read more >>
It’s a different name on the Monday puzzle but Rufus-lovers will not be disappointed, I think: we have a familiar straightforward medley of charades, anagrams and double definitions to ease us into the … Read more >>
It’s not Sunday is it? Been a while since Hypnos appeared during the week.
It’s Christmas! So it’s the giant 21×21 sized Eye crossword with some special feature. This puzzle has a preamble: Running clockwise around the shaded squares, starting top left, are two sentences from a 2016 … Read more >>
Only one printing error, and the correct rubric, for this month’s competition puzzle.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3664.
Good stuff from Hoskins once again. This was a solve of two halves for me, starting briskly and then requiring some headscratching for the last 10 or so to fall in. 27 across … Read more >>
The blogging cycle brings me Serpent again which is no bad thing. Serpent has brought some innovation to the puzzles done so far both in terms of themes and clueing, and the same … Read more >>
‘Special instructions’ always cause me a bit of a flutter, especially if I’m blogging. Here, they were ‘Twelve solutions contain related objects, not further defined in their clues’. This seemed quite straightforward – … Read more >>
Happy New year – this week’s offering from Artix has 3 columns to complete – based on an actor to be found to complete the initial grid then amendments to show the actor’s … Read more >>
A very unusual grid in that there are only 22 answers, the fewest I’ve ever seen in a daily cryptic. I’m running a bit late today and wondered why I seem to have caught up: obvious why, with so little for me to do.
Enjoyable and utterly satisfactory as always. So many answers that initially gave difficulty proved to be very simple in hindsight.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.