Never knowingly undersolved
There’s no danger of it being a spoiler to say, in the first line of the preamble, that Picaroon has presented us with a themed Prize puzzle – not too challenging but a … Read more >>
Weekend puzzle from the FT of April 16, 2023
Apoloogies, all, for the late posting. Thank you to Picaroon. Definitions are underlined in the clues. As mentioned in 9 down, there are 10 (past and present) members of “a House Divided”, refering … Read more >>
Happy Phiday to everyone.
An interesting challenge from MUDD today. Unsure about a couple of solves/parsing.
Sorry, I scheduled this post but it was still a draft so didn’t auto-publish! This was definitely challenge worthy of a long weekend – thanks, Maskarade! There was no real guesswork to the … Read more >>
Normal clues – one word that is missing twice from a proclamation to be completed around the perimeter and the author’s surname to be highlighted. Definitely an entry level puzzle – reminded me … Read more >>
Rodriguez provides today’s challenge.
Gurney provides this morning's FT puzzle.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29049.
Eccles has provided our mid-week entertainment today. I found this to be a medium-difficulty puzzle, just right for the time I have available to solve and blog on a Wednesday. That said, I … Read more >>
Imogen fills the midweek slot, with a puzzle which I really enjoyed. We have a medley of straightforward charades and anagrams, some with ingenious indicators, and some less familiar words, with neat surfaces … Read more >>
A most enjoyable puzzle from Chalmie, as ever.
Ah, it’s one of those puzzles: Answers – each of 7 letters – start or end in the correspondingly numbered cell and must be entered either clockwise or anticlockwise, connecting to the central … Read more >>
Took a while to solve, and longer to parse. Favourites 11ac, 24ac, and especially 17ac. Thanks to Pangakupu for the puzzle