Never knowingly undersolved
It seems that Eccles is becoming an increasingly regular setter on Fifteensquared, filling in many of the Wednesday slots that used to be occupied by Dac. Which is appropriate, for he is a good setter, not the hardest, but always challenging enough and pleasant to solve.
Definitions underlined, in maroon. Anagram indicators in italics.
A nice surprise to get an Arachne for my first blog after a couple of weeks away in the Highlands (thanks to Loonapick and Teacow for keeping my seat warm). Lots of fun … Read more >>
The umpteenth Inquisitor from Phi … Preamble: The key phases of the moon here are 1st Quarter, 3rd Quarter and Full. 4-, 8- and 12-letter entries suffer a Phase Shift: the wordplay … Read more >>
Thanks to Hamilton. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1 Cell is helping to get the go-ahead (8) PLATELET : PLATE(a helping of food) + LET(to get the go-ahead;to be allowed to). … Read more >>
A slightly easier than normal Nutmeg this morning…
It’s Tuesday, it’s Theme Day.
And Hob is no stranger when it comes to this.
One of the regular Quiptic setters, Anto, is on the oche this morning. Some of the arrows he/she has thrown at us are, only in my opinion of course, missing … Read more >>
A fairly gentle start to the week from CRUX…
Italicus is a setter I haven’t seen before, but there were some excellent clues here. I had a few queries on one or two of them.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27622.
The scheduled blogger has not turned up so here is an analysis of the clues with no further commentary because there are other things that I should be doing on a Sunday afternoon. … Read more >>
A plain Azed this week, one which I found quite difficult to get started There were a couple of clues where the word play eluded me for a while. These were … Read more >>
I enjoyed this. A bit more meat than the standard Sunday lunch offering. Thank you Kairos.
With summer well and truly over – a puzzle from Hoskins is in the Saturday slot. A fun puzzle, a little risque too but in my opinion all the better for that. 22ac … Read more >>
A nicely constructed grid and a reasonably challenging puzzle in REMAINDER from Gaston this week… The preamble states that: “This week, a large thematic group are bound for the entry in the central … Read more >>