Never knowingly undersolved
beermagnet Filbert is one of the more recent to join the merry band of Independent setters, and this is the first time the nutty one has been seen on a Saturday. I have only … Read more >>
Headmistress has written quite a lot – 585 pages I hear. So I suppose we should be thankful this annual giant puzzle is still only 27×27 instead of something much larger. The puzzle … Read more >>
Private Eye snuck out a 1-week issue so by now most of you will be stuck into the Christmas monster. I’m going to start just as soon as I’ve posted this blog. Solving: … Read more >>
This was a masterclass of brilliant clues … … so many it’s silly to list them. Oh all right: 8 28 19 22 16 1 4 and 5 and that’s not including the ones where … Read more >>
Because the Eye crossword allows us the luxury of over a week to solve it I often wait till the mood takes me. This time I felt like solving it straight away … … Read more >>
Looks like Dalibor is on the setting cycle that makes his puzzles land on my day to blog again … … and I certainly don’t mind that. Two thirds of the way into … Read more >>
During the first half of solving this there seemed to be a large number of anagrams . Then after the half-time orange, I seemed to find charade after charade It was just the … Read more >>
There is the usual swathe of political subject matter in the clues, but besides the grid centring on Jeremy Corbyn, there isn’t much in the answers. Favourite clue must be the long anagram … Read more >>
Is this the first puzzle by Dalibor in the Independent? If so, this was a fine one to open the account. I’m familiar with his puzzles created for the various Sloggers and Betters … Read more >>
Another fairly routine Eye puzzle this time. Nothing hugely topical or interesting to call out. Solving was easy enough for the first pass which ended with much more than half the grid filled: … Read more >>
Yikes! This was hard
I got 6 answers after the first pass of the clues, but 2 of them turned out to be wrong.
… again. There is a central issue in this crossword. Solving was almost a clean sweep. I attempted but failed to cold solve the two down clues in the leftmost column: 1 and … Read more >>
Puzzles by Tyrus are always good – this one is some sort of tour de force Solving was an absolute delight. I had read through all across clues plus half a dozen down … Read more >>
I found this one of the most tricky Eye puzzles for a while. Looking back at it I can’t quite put my finger on why. From the off I had trouble, reading through … Read more >>
I don’t think I’ve ever attempted a Serpent puzzle that disappointed. This one certainly didn’t. Sometimes I look at a blog I’ve done after it’s published and think: Cor blimey. That doesn’t give … Read more >>