Never knowingly undersolved
A Saturday in July and a familiar adversary Nimrod has control of the clues today. Oh joy! A mild outing by Nimrod’s standards or I was on a roll. I suspect the former. … Read more >>
A seriously long preamble – extra letters and missing letters in alternating down clues. Something weird to happen to two across clues and 16 letters to find in a closed loop, inside which … Read more >>
I’ll be interested to see if other people found this as tough as we did! It’s one of those ones where looking back I’m not sure why it was quite so hard, but … Read more >>
A really tough challenge from WANDERER this Friday that I struggled with. Needed some help to get across the line. Thanks WANDERER for a brilliant puzzle.
We are currently on holiday – if there are any errors, omissions or anything else that needs a reply we are afraid that we may not be able to deal with it until … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27560.
An update from John Henderson regarding accommodation at York Racecourse: I’m led to believe that non-S&B bookings are coming up fast on the rails – and if people want a cheap weekend … Read more >>
Paul makes his weekly appearance on Thursday this week. A bit of a mixture of straightforward clues and a few trickier ones, including a couple of amusing ‘homophones’ and one or … Read more >>
This week’s Thursday slot has been occupied by Punk, whose work I rarely have the opportunity to blog. I found this puzzle very challenging and in the end had to resort to the … Read more >>
The puzzle can be found here.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 30, 2018
My apologies for the lateness of the blog today
An enjoyable puzzle with some lovely surfaces, and a couple of niggles that turned up while blogging without spoiling the solving. Favourites were 13ac, 22ac, 24ac, 21dn, and 23dn.
Knut focuses on topical news in his puzzles. Topicality of course is constrained by the lead times required to get a puzzle compiled, edited and published in a national daily. … Read more >>
Chalicea is a fairly regular contributor to the Inquisitor series. I blogged her most recent one in January that focused on the SS Great Eastern and the transatlantic communications cable. … Read more >>