Never knowingly undersolved
Another pleasing and well-constructed puzzle from Everyman, with its now well-established trio of features: the rhyming couplet, the first letter clue and the self-reference. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue … Read more >>
Thank you to Shabbo. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. A few good-looking bananas dropped off (4) SOME : “handsome”(good-looking/physically attractive) minus(… dropped off) “hand”(a bundle or cluster of bananas). 3. … Read more >>
You learn something new every day and you certainly do if you tackle Tees’s puzzles. Solving started at pace: 8A SEA WALL seemed very obvious, then 1D ASTEROID looked like a well known … Read more >>
The second Picaroon in seven days!
Friday is Phiday and thus brings us his latest crossword to solve. I found this to be a medium-difficulty Phi puzzle overall, one that I had to chip away at after writing in … Read more >>
An excellent challenge from ARTEXLEN this Friday.
A delightful romp of a puzzle from Picaroon to end the week. There were several laugh-out-loud clues, notably 11 and the audacious 26ac. I also particularly liked 14, 15 and 22 ac … Read more >>
Puzzles by Methuselah are appearing more frequently in the Independent weekday series and they offer entertaining challenges. Methuselah doesn’t take definitions straight from the dictionary so solvers have to engage in … Read more >>
Today's FT setter is Moo.
A fun solve, with favourites 11ac, 14ac, 3dn, 13dn, 16dn, and 19dn. Thanks to Brendan for the puzzle.
Hell-oh all. I never thought that come the end of the world* we would be sitting around doing puzzles about it. Life is strange. A sobering but important month in the EV series … Read more >>
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 16, 2022
Another unusual grid from Gozo, all the across entries are 15 letters long. Thank you Gozo.
Another of Bluth’s regular Indy appearances: they’re always a fun challenge.