Never knowingly undersolved
The mind can do some funny things when it comes to word association. As soon as I saw it was Nutmeg this morning I immediately thought of rice pudding, followed very quickly by … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword / Jul 31, 2017
Last week Falcon, this week Dante.
Relatively easy and no surprises ….
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 29, 2017
It is always a pleasure to get a Monk puzzle to solve and blog, he never disappoints. Thank you Monk.
This puzzle can be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27271
This is the first Silvanus puzzle I have blogged and I enjoyed the puzzle overall. ‘The clue I most enjoyed today was the one for FRIENDSHIP at 26 across where … Read more >>
Kruger tells us in the preamble to his puzzle that sixteen clues contain a redundant word. The first letters of these give a well-known title which (ignoring the significance of apostrophes) describes how … Read more >>
This took me ages, although I have no real excuse. Everything was sound so far as I could see; it was simply very hard. It seems that with Scorpion’s crosswords much of the difficulty lies in the fact that there are so many possibilities at each stage.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27270.
A brisk workout from Crux this Tuesday. A good one for practising your speed techniques.
Welcome to Matilda, whose debut puzzle I believe this is. Good to see a new setter making an appearance.
Well, here’s a surprise – Pasquale rather than Rufus in the Monday slot. This should cause some discussion. 😉 More of a challenge than usual for the beginning of the week but not … Read more >>
Looks like the Serpent is back to woo us today.
Ronald T Dump continues to provide clue-fodder for Cyclops, although there are some finely-tuned closer-to-home barbs as well this fortnight… We start at 1A with COVFEFE – ‘a word from Trump’…did he fall … Read more >>