Never knowingly undersolved
A fairly straightforward offering from Paul, with the relatively easy long answers at 14,16ac and 1 and 8dn giving some handy openings. Favourite clues: 10, 17 and 26ac Thanks to Paul and to … Read more >>
A great Thursday challenge from Klingsor this week that we really enjoyed. The NE corner went in fairly quickly and as soon as 10 across was solved we both thought – pangram? … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Jun 12, 2017
Good start of the FT week with a friendly Falcon puzzle.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 10, 2017
This was hard. Solving the puzzle, explaining the answers and writing it all up took hours, and being so engrossed in sorting all this out I have forgotten to give my daughter a lift to the dentist. I am going to be in big trouble later. Thanks Io.
Eccles appears to be standing in for Dac in the Wednesday slot this week. And speaking of standing in for people, many thanks to Gaufrid for replacing me at short notice last Thursday, … Read more >>
Very enjoyable – favourites were 1ac and 19ac. Thanks, Screw.
Got there in the end, but a Serpentine puzzle! The rubric read: The completed grid is inspired by a famous image. Other than 8, wordplay in each across clue leads to the answer … Read more >>
I struggled a bit with this, and not for reasons of personal slow-wittedness, for once.
Kairos is not a setter that I have blogged very often. When I solved the puzzle I struggled quite a bit. When I came to write the blog I wondered … Read more >>
I was planning to start this blog by saying “it’s been a while since I blogged an Arachne puzzle”, and then found that that was exactly what I said when I last did … Read more >>
A nice start-the-week sort of crossword with lots of well written clues.
Pan is one of the well-established Quiptic setters and invariably provides us with a good start to the week. He/she has done so here again, although the grid, with lots of clues with … Read more >>
A better than average Rufus today.
Yet again Everyman has produced an accessible puzzle that is ideal for those new, or relatively new, to the art of solving cryptic crosswords. However, I do have one minor reservation. For the … Read more >>