Never knowingly undersolved
It’s Serpent, so there’s a theme to be spotted. But I haven’t been able to fathom it.
There always seems to be theme in a Saturday Serpent, though I haven’t looked back to check. Of course I didn’t remember that there might be a theme, or stumble over it, till after I finished, indeed when I was looking at the completed grid thinking about writing this blog.
I did that silly thing. Grab the Eye as soon as it hit the doormat and tackled the puzzle. I must go back to my rule of reading the damn thing before I … Read more >>
Another Saturday, another Picaroon – we seem to be coinciding quite a lot recently…and another fairly tough workout…
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 12, 2023
A proper head-scratcher from GAFF !
Paul rounds off the week for the second time running, making this my third Paul blog in eight days. An interesting and entertaining puzzle, with some ingenious and amusing constructions. I had ticks … Read more >>
As usual, it is a Phi puzzle on a Friday Phi can often include a theme or message in his grids, but I don’t think there is one here today. … Read more >>
A slightly tricky challenge from Tees today.
Slormgorm makes an appearance in today’s FT.
A difficult solve with tricky parsing, and many favourites including 10ac, 13ac, 26ac, 4dn, 5dn, 8dn, 15dn. Thanks to Picaroon for the puzzle
“In eight clues a consecutive group of letters is to be removed, affecting the surface reading. These groups of letters can be rearranged as BIRDS, which are to be inserted into eight normally clued answers to form new words. Numbers in brackets refer to lengths of grid entries. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended; one entry is in Collins.”
Umpire is a fairly new addition to the Indy setting team – this is our first blog of an Umpire puzzle.
A stiff challenge, as expected from this setter, with the NW corner holding me up the longest. Thanks to Vlad. Across 1 WAR BRIDE One becoming union member during dispute (3,5)Cryptic definition … Read more >>
A wonderful tribute from the FT today to a very talented setter.
Watch Your Step by Elpenor All clues are normal. Within each row or column, any occurrences of a certain letter in clued answers must be removed before entry into the grid; the removed … Read more >>