Never knowingly undersolved
A typical Independent on Sunday puzzle from Hoskins. That is to say, easy-end. And in traditional Hoskins style, the vast majority of the clues have a reference to sex, drugs, drink or flatulence. … Read more >>
Rodriguez provides the entertainment in the middle of May – well almost the middle. And apologies for the delay. Forgot what day it was. I found this pretty straight forward for Rodriguez, certainly … Read more >>
I really struggled with this one – just not on Vlad’s wavelength, I suppose! Thanks to the setter, as usual Across 1. Darn! Accepting credit leading to ruin (5,2) SCREW UP SEW UP … Read more >>
A Phi on a Phiday – just what we like.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28756.
A typical enjoyable challenge from GOLIATH.
It’s May and Kcit (aka Phi) provides the EV entertainment. A blank bottom row, an unclued middle row comprising 4 components and an unclued bottom row – making new words in the grid. … Read more >>
Julius's turn to provide an FT challenge.
My first challenge was to find the puzzle, which wasn’t available on the Guardian website. Luckily I managed to track down the PDF version. I made a slow start initially, but getting the … Read more >>
Knut has provided our cruciverbal challenge for today, using a grid that I am not that familiar with. I found this to be towards the hard end of the Indy range of difficulty, … Read more >>
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of April 30, 2022
I enjoyed this very much. An unusual puzzle in which, as the instructions say, every single grid entry is a theme word. Thank you Gozo.
A slow and tricky solve. Favourites were 8ac, 9/3, 4dn, 6dn, and 19dn. Thanks to Paul
Wednesday’s Independent puzzle is set by Filbert, a setter I usually find quite challenging. Wednesday puzzles tend to be message or theme free and I think this one is similar. … Read more >>
Ifor is a fairly prolific setter of Inquisitor with one of his puzzles appearing every two or three months. Ifor has served up a wide range of themes and cluing … Read more >>