Never knowingly undersolved
Knut has served up a cruciverbal delight for our delectation this Thursday in mid-February. It has been a while since it has fallen to me to blog a puzzle by Knut, and on … Read more >>
A straightforward puzzle from Slormgorm is this morning’s FT offering.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28061. The SW corner took me longer than the rest of the puzzle together, with the obscure AVIZANDUM (and its equally opaque wordplay) as last in. there … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 8, 2020
It’s Philistine’s turn to provide our entertainment today – and he does it in characteristic style. Lots of clever clues, as usual from this setter – my favourites were 14ac and 6,9 – … Read more >>
A traditional puzzle from Aardvark. Thank you. The grid is a pangram. If you keep on lookout for this sort of thing while solving it helps to spot words like QUICHE, RIOJA etc. … Read more >>
Eccles today, so we can expect a well clued crossword, unlikely to have a theme or a message. This puzzle meets those expectations very well.. I think the only entry … Read more >>
Got off to a quick start then stalled towards the end. Favourites were 10ac, 22ac, 8dn, 16dn, 18dn, and 23dn. Thanks to Pasquale
Skylark is the fourth in the series of female setters following Nutmeg, Chalicea and Vismut in the past three weeks. The preamble was quite short this week and stated: Twenty-seven … Read more >>
A pleasant Tuesday morning excercise.
An excellent set of clues as usual from Radian today. It was not all that easy, but perfectly understandable in retrospect. Definitions in olive, underlined. Anagram indicators in italics. The theme (Radian has … Read more >>
Anto is providing our entertainment today: mostly straightforward with a few tricky moments. I made steady progress with this, then realised I’d got absolutely nothing in the SW corner. That held out for … Read more >>
Thanks Gila for an enjoyable challenge this morning. Gila is testing us with a wide range of cultural influences (art, literature and music); there are a few unusual words but the clues are … Read more >>
A gentle start to the week from VELIA… Good mix of clues here, nothing too challenging. Some lovely surfaces, 8d and 13d in particular. I found 10a a bit odd in that there … Read more >>
Even by “gentle Monday” standards I made short work of this, with a lot of write-ins. There seems to be a definite mistake in one clue, and I have a couple of other … Read more >>