Never knowingly undersolved
A double carte blanche with 2 missing clues and merged clues. At least the clues in are normal order, albeit without the word lengths. If that was not enough, a four word phrase … Read more >>
Looks like the Indy and our fifteensquared rota are aligned and brings a Tees to blog again – suits me. I remember some years ago I found Tees’ puzzles very hard. I know … Read more >>
It’s not giving anything away to say that we have a fishy offering from Boatman this morning. One good thing about blogging this was that there was no fear of missing a hidden … Read more >>
A typical Friday offering from BRADMAN, and a solid challenge which I found somewhat tough in parts …
Another end to the week and another Phi to solve. However, we still have some of this week’s Indy puzzles yet to solve as the Inquisitor crossword in the i newspaper last Saturday … Read more >>
Some lovely cluing and tough at the beginning
Filbert has provided today’s cruciverbal teaser for our (pain and!) pleasure. This was my first attempt at solving and blogging an Indy puzzle by Filbert and I found it a real challenge, towards … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of January 13, 2017
In general I found this a little easier than Nutmeg can sometimes be, though with a few tricky moments. However, it is of the usually high quality and full of invention. Thanks to … Read more >>
A super puzzle. Hats off to those that didn’t need a dictionary! Thank you Gozo.
As far as I can ascertain from research on fifteensquared, Points is more regularly seen at weekends than during the week. I can’t remember blogging a Poins puzzle before. Maybe … Read more >>
This is Chalicea’s thirteenth Inquisitor in seven year, so we see her puzzle every six months on average. The preamble was fairly short, as follows: "A message relating to | … Read more >>
My heart sank a bit when I saw that I was blogging a Serpent: he’s dreadfully hard, isn’t he? Well no, not actually: there were some easy ones so that the start was OK; then I got rather stuck and was slow to complete. But the clues (apart from 28ac possibly: no doubt I shall be corrected — yes I was, by baerchen, many thanks, I thought that would happen) were sound and good. Nice crossword.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
Tramp turns the diffiulty up to 11 this morning.