Never knowingly undersolved
Hoskins has given us a puzzle to sink our teeth into this Thursday, the first of his puzzles that it has fallen to me to blog in a long time. I actually found … Read more >>
My first Guardian outing for some time on a rather chilly St Andrew’s day.
The puzzle can be found here.
Monday prize Crossword / Nov 20, 2017
Dante and Falcon may be the perfect Monday setters, Armonie could be one too.
Accessible, relatively easy and consistent.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 18, 2017
Thank you Julius for another fine puzzle to solve and blog. A couple of bits I don’t fully understand but no doubt they will be explained in due course.
We have a typically elegant Dac crossword today You know what you are going to get with Dac. Clues with very good surfaces, unambiguous parsing and entries that come from … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27367.
Ifor is an innovative and challenging setter, so it was good to see his name attached to this puzzle The preamble told us that "Across clues and entries are normal … Read more >>
I enjoyed this. Not too desperately difficult but there were some tricky bits. For example I only just realised about 26ac and was searching vainly on Google for some song that she performed.
A fairly typical puzzle from Pasquale, with the customary unfamiliar or half-forgotten word or two thrown in to challenge us – but all, as ever, meticulously clued and therefore ultimately solvable. Thank you, … Read more >>
Enjoyable puzzle. Nothing vicious, but always interesting with some very nice surfaces.
One of the longest-standing Quiptic setters, Hectence, is on the oche this morning, with a puzzle I much enjoyed. Since it’s promoted as being for ‘beginners and those in a hurry’, for the … Read more >>
Thanks Rufus – I especially liked 18ac, 25ac, 4dn, and 19dn.
Eccles made his debut in the Indy just over a year ago, but it’s the first time I’ve had the chance to blog one of his puzzles. I enjoyed it very much, especially … Read more >>