Never knowingly undersolved
A pleasing mixture of straightforward charades, insertions and anagrams, which hit the Quiptic spot for me. What did you beginners think? Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad … Read more >>
Once again I’ve forgotton to blog this in advance, sorry about that.
We have a plain Azed competition puzzle this week … Well it was presented as plain puzzle, but given the date of publication, it was a case of ‘Solvers beware’…. … Read more >>
A straightforward and not too difficult puzzle without it being bland or boring. Having blogged a lot of puzzles of all types over the years I am coming to appreciate how hard it is for a setter to get both of these elements right at the same time. Thank you Hypnos.
I’m struggling with this month’s Genius by this setter’s Guardian alter-ego – in fact I’ve got hardly anywhere with that. Thank goodness this puzzle wasn’t quite as tricky as that. It was pretty … Read more >>
Stick Insect seems to have averaged one or two EVs a year since 2013-or so, and I think I have attempted/solved most of them, but this is the first of his I have … Read more >>
I enjoyed this very much. Thank you Gozo.
A highly entertaining puzzle from Qaos today,with lots of ingenious cluing, including innovative anagram indicators, and several smiles during the solve. In a Qaos puzzle, once the solving and parsing are done, there’s … Read more >>
Phi ends the working week as usual. I solved this fairly steadily with a little delay in the South East corner before I completed it. The grid looks message and … Read more >>
A much welcome setter gives us a delectable offering to spice up our Fridays. Thanks WANDERER, for a pleasant and witty challenge.
Not too tricky after a slow start, with favourites 14ac and 24ac…
Excellent crossword from Morph today. It took me a long time, but that was because it was good and difficult, and the delay was almost entirely the result of my own incompetence. Where I have cast doubt on the setter I shall probably be shown to be wrong. There are lots of very nice clues here.
Definitions underlined in maroon and anagram indicators in italics.
Today’s puzzle can be found here.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 24, 2018
An interesting and somewhat special puzzle from Gozo. Sorry the blog is a little later than usual but it is holiday time, snowing heavily and the usual schedule has gone to pot.