Never knowingly undersolved
For me, this was the most enjoyable Paul puzzle in a long time. On the first run through, I got none of the across clues and so it seemed it was going to … Read more >>
The wordplay in all across clues and in sixteen down clues are thematically modified. The across clues have extra letters, which spell out a message; the modifications applied to down clues are to be worked out. There are also two unclued entries, which must be replaced in line with the theme.
An enjoyable Paul puzzle to end the week. On ‘ordinary’ [non-blogging] days, I go through the clues in order, parsing as I go. This morning, I was slightly worried to realise that I … Read more >>
A good challenge from Bradman this Friday with more than the average number of anagrams sprinkled through out the grid. Thanks Don for a pleasurable workout.
The usual experience with Phi: clues whose answer is not always obvious, yet after solving one wonders where the problem lay. There are no clues here where I am asking for help in the parsing (which is not to say that all will be perfectly correct. It seldom is).
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
As usual from Chifonie, not too difficult, nicely clued, and fun to solve. Favourite 19dn.
A tricky pangram from Julius this morning.
A fairly straightforward puzzle from Tees today – is Thursday no longer the ‘toughie’ day in the Indy? We didn’t notice it when solving, but we realised when writing up the blog … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / May 15, 2017
One may think ‘another Monday, another Dante’ but I had a very different experience this time.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of May 13, 2017
Another excellent themed puzzle. Thank you Gozo.
Dac has contributed another of his regular Wednesday puzzles today. Overall, I found this towards the easy end of the Dac spectrum, but no less enjoyable for that. The clue that took me … Read more >>
I found most of this puzzle to be relatively straightforward but was delayed a little by the last two or three entries, particularly 1dn which I’d never heard of before. It’s a pangram, but … Read more >>
The rubric, quite concise but complicated, read: Corrections to misprinted definitions in 14 clues give a hider and seeker. In some other clues wordplay leads to the answer with a letter omitted. Reading … Read more >>
If you like double definitions and obscure references, this one’s for you…