Never knowingly undersolved
The welcome sight of Brendan’s name on a puzzle is a promise of and enjoyable, but not too difficult, puzzle, and so it was on this occasion. Thanks to Brendan. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN famously … Read more >>
Moo is today's setter in the FT
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of October 16, 2021
Great stuff as usual from Monk, and not especially difficult (for Monk). Thank you Monk.
One from the main man…
I always look forward to an Eccles puzzle given his track record of writing excellent clues with very plausible surfaces. There were examples of smooth clue writing today as well. … Read more >>
This week we are faced with a puzzle by Nimrod, in the form of a carte blanche, with an asymmetric hole of undefined size in the middle of the completed grid. Well, this … Read more >>
A new setter, to me anyway, and a very decent first showing…
It’s Teesday again – my second Tees blog in a week. Not that I’m complaining, far from it.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28586.
A fairly straightforward Quiptic from one of our longest-serving setters.
Vulcan starts the week with a reasonably straightforward puzzle. A typical Monday medley, with several double / cryptic definitions and some neat anagrams. I liked the surfaces of 16ac and 3dn. Thanks to … Read more >>
Always a pleasure to get a Vigo puzzle to solve and blog on a Monday. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] … Read more >>
Cyclops keeps us entertained with another round of clues with imaginative surface readings. [ All of which are funnier than this blog’s final “joke” – sorry. ] Solving did not start well. First … Read more >>
A Monday morning SLORMGORM…