Never knowingly undersolved
Quite a challenge in places, with some nice clues. I found fault with a bit, as explained in the blog, but these were small criticisms and overall it was enjoyable.
All indicators (anagram, hidden, homophone, deletion, reversal etc) in italics. Definitions inderlined.
Azed has me “stumped”
A mostly amenable puzzle, but with a few tricky clues thrown in. Thank you Poins.
Like the last Indy I blogged, Raich’s 10,678, I started this at a canter in the top half, but ground to a halt further down – and was eventually flummoxed by one bit of fairly specialist GK, and a cunning wild cat…
Some more deviousness from Tramp to test us. Thank you Tramp.
An absolute blinder of a puzzle from WANDERER which had me completely outfoxed. Had to use the dictionary to get across the line and do believe some parsings could be improved.
Apologies for the late appearance of this clue analysis. The scheduled blogger emailed me this morning to say that he would “post the blog quite late tonight”. I assumed that this meant his … Read more >>
Thanks to Crucible. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Most of the solutions are associated with the answer to 16 across, ie. animals, plants, and other things existing in nature and not made … Read more >>
Unsurprisingly Phi provides the first Friday puzzle of February. I am defeated by the wordplay for one of the entries so look forward to being enlightened. At 12 down the entry is obviously … Read more >>
Maize sends us all over the place today with an enjoyable geographical theme.
Neo provides this morning's entertainment.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28360.
I don’t know about you, but I think WHAT’S EARNED is a little lie-down after solving this one! I’m sure Jaques must have needed one after setting it…
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of January 23, 2021
My attention has been drawn to a new site that may be of interest to some of you. It provides a location where amateur setters can compile and host their own crosswords.