Never knowingly undersolved
A thoughtfully constructed Quiptic from one of the slot’s most reliable and enjoyable setters. Bravo. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] … Read more >>
Sunday seems to have become quite the regular slot for Filbert of late.
Pretty difficult this week I thought — I often solve Everyman when I’m not blogging and it can be far easier than this. Why do I always get the tough ones? The usual Everyman trademarks are there and coloured above. It seemed there were more cases than usual of there being a need for explanation.
Definitions in crimson, underlined. Indicators (anagram, reversal, hidden, homophone etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated (like this)* or *(like this). Link-words in green.
It’s competition week for Azed, but it’s just a plain puzzle. No doubt there will be complex puzzles around Christmas and New Year. I found this more difficult than many … Read more >>
Hello everyone….a grid from Quince to solve today.
This is the thirty-sixth Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords. The whole point of these crosswords is support and encouragement of new solvers, so special rules for these crosswords apply – see here – those rules include not posting solving times. There is a summary of the tricks used in the first six months here. This puzzle can be found here.
It’s a Prize Puzzle, and it’s a Paul – so there’ll probably be some linked/multi-light entries, some punning double-definitions, and maybe an outrageous homophone or two…let’s see…
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 30, 2024
Thank you to Omnibus, whoever you are. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Apologies again for the late posting (a flat tyre disrupted my schedule). Across 1, 21. 8’s more likely to break … Read more >>
Friday is normally a day for a puzzle from Phi, but he set the Tuesday puzzle this week. Tees is in the Friday slot. The clue at 9/10 across looked … Read more >>
A challenging puzzle from GUY that I made very heavy weather of.
A Thursday challenge from Twin; I enjoyed blogging this setter’s Indy puzzle a month ago, and was happy to meet again.
NOTE: There was a glitch on The Independent website, which caused a four-year-old Tyrus puzzle to appear. This has now been corrected.
If you want to see the Tyrus blog (10,655) then click here: https://www.fifteensquared.net/2020/12/05/independent-10655-by-tyrus/
Jason is today's compiler.
The puzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29558.
“Solvers must remove a superfluous word from each of 23 clues before solving. Taking either the first or last letter from these words, in clue order, indicates how to LOOP the remaining answers for entry, resolving any clashes. All entries in the final grid are real words.”