Never knowingly undersolved
Kairos has provided today’s medium-difficulty puzzle, on what is traditionally theme day. This puzzle has been compiled on a grid that accommodates a very large number of clues, many of which give short … Read more >>
A fun puzzle from Fed this morning.
Some of the clues in today’s Peto puzzle took me a bit of thinking to unravel, but I believe these parsings work . . .
ARTEXLEN kicks things off this week…
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Soldier has location for drone? (8) PARASITE : PARA(short for “paratrooper”/soldier who parachutes into the combat zone) plus(has) SITE(a location/place at … Read more >>
A very enjoyable and tricky puzzle.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29148.
The puzzle is available here.
The crossword may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4007.
A medium-strength offering from the master, challenging and instructive as ever. Thanks to Azed. Rather unusually, the rubric mentions three “problematic” answers: two that are not in Chambers, and one abbreviation. Azed sometimes … Read more >>
With a traditional British summer in full swing Bluth inerrupts the wind and the rain. A great pleasure as always. Some novel constructs which I have come to expect from Bluth – all … Read more >>
It’s Paul filling the Prize slot this week, with something of a mixture of clue styles. We had old favourites at 4dn and 19dn, for instance, but it turned out that the former … Read more >>
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 5, 2023
Paul rounds off the week with a generally straightforward puzzle, with just a few bits of parsing that took more thinking about. I had ticks for 1ac SPEEDWAY, 11ac ARTLESSLY, 29ac MOONSETS, 7dn … Read more >>
Phiday fun and games again.