Never knowingly undersolved
A solid, but maybe fairly un-challenging, puzzle from Klingsor today – not sure it would have passed 1D as a Saturday Prize puzzle in days of yore…some nice presentation, in terms of surface … Read more >>
A themed puzzle from Pasquale at an appropriate time of year.
This week, there were no misprints or extra/missing wordplay letters, just clashes to identify. The preamble read: Ten thematic types linked to 5 down are formed in cells where entries clash; in all … Read more >>
A consummate display of crossword setting wizadry from GAFF .. thanks for an absolute peach of a puzzle.
Phi is very much at home today, occupying his customary Friday slot. I found this to be a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle, which gave me a good workout but saved me undue head-scratching. I … Read more >>
I’m a late stand-in for scchua who has other commitments at the moment. Only an analysis of the clues from me (no commentary) because I am busy trying to find out why the … Read more >>
It’s only been a fortnight since I last blogged the Serpent, so it was a pleasant surprise to get him again.
Took me a while to get the whole picture…
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27314.
Monday Prize Crossword / Sep 18, 2017
For the second week in a row, Dante’s on the menu – with the same grid.
Mostly easy but …..
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of September 16, 2017
This is an anniversary milestone puzzle. Thank you Monk, congratulations and many more to come please! There is one clue I need help with. Any takers?
Problems today with the fifteensquared site, which was down earlier, so I’m afraid this is a little late. However, you probably won’t be affected because you couldn’t get into it either.
As always Dac has given us an utterly pleasant puzzle. No great problems with it I think — even the slightly doubtful one at 3dn, where my suspicion is that Homer, or the two Homers, nodded, was really perfectly obvious. But then quite possibly they didn’t nod at all and I have missed something.
Definitions in maroon, underlined.
As with Rufus puzzles, it’s difficult to find anything new to say about Chifonie’s. They can usually be relied on to be straightforward, a medley of anagrams, charades and double definitions, all soundly … Read more >>
We get a puzzle from Gila just over once a year, and I’ve blogged the two most recent ones. Preamble: Single extra letters generated by wordplay in across clues provide the first … Read more >>