Never knowingly undersolved
I haven’t blogged about a Paul in a little while, so this was a nice treat! Particularly notable for me was the number of very nice double definitions here. Thanks, Paul! Across 5. … Read more >>
A fun puzzle – found it slow going at the start until I worked out a few of the longer solutions. Favourites were 1ac, 21ac, and 15dn. Thanks to Maskarade
Bert & Joyce are off on their holiday so I’m standing in today in my 300th blog . This seems like a plain Phi puzzle.
BRADMAN , our familiar friend on Fridays dishes a gentle tussle of a challenge .
Today’s puzzle has been provided by Bluth. We have been treated to his puzzles on a regular basis during and since the pandemic. I found this puzzle to be rather taxing, and although … Read more >>
One of the most complex preambles I can recall reading. Across clues have no numbers and are missing a letter in their wordplay. The missing letters spell out where one might find pine … Read more >>
Leonidas is today's setter.
Another great puzzle from Picaroon. Not easy, with some tricky constructions and devious definitions, but well worth the effort and satisfying to finish. Thanks to Picaroon. Across 1 DISCOMBOBULATE Throw party, performing … Read more >>
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 5, 2022
An entertaining puzzle as always from Julius. Thank you.
Imogen's today's Guardian setter.
My fourth Tees blog in five weeks, but I’m quite happy. Tees varies his subject matter so every puzzle is a slightly different challenge. There are often classical references to … Read more >>
Phi is a prolific crossword setter.. His puzzles feature regularly in the Independent daily crossword series and the Saturday Inquisitor puzzles. The preamble stated: Nine clues have a single-letter misprint … Read more >>
Decent, lightly-themed Tuesday entertainment from Gaff, but…
A reasonably straightforward Tuesday challenge from Crosophile.