Never knowingly undersolved
Chalicea is a frequent setter of puzzles in the Inquisitor series. with two or three offerings each year. Her puzzles provide an excellent introduction to themed barred crosswords. Chalicea presents a wide … Read more >>
A welcome return for Dill, who hasn’t appeared in the Independent for a while.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28825.
I’m writing this up somewhat belatedly, so don’t remember much about my solving experience, but I think it was of fairly average difficulty. I may be missing something (it wouldn’t be the first … Read more >>
I’ve just heard from Grant Baynham’s partner, Moira, that Grant passed away last week. Grant blogged the FT puzzle every Tuesday. As far as I can see, this was his first blog published … Read more >>
Carpathian usually shows up in the Guardian about once a month, either at the trickier end of the Quiptic range (as here) or in the regular Monday slot.
I found this a fairly challenging puzzle with a few clues that needed quite a lot of crossing letters before I could solve them.
Found this trickier than most Mondays, and still not 100% sure on all of the parsings. Favourites were 4ac, 2dn, and especially 26ac. Thanks to Vulcan
This week, and month, begin with a SLORMGORM…
A conventional puzzle with an unusual clueing style for this month’s Genius.