Never knowingly undersolved
beermagnet Private Eye has a number of parts that have provided solid amusement for many years decades. I always find a handful of cartoons that catch my funny bone. Of course there are the serious sections too, but other long standing humorous sections that somehow keep delivering include Colman CommentatorBalls and Look-a-likes.
Another is the Eye crossword.
Another fun-packed episode from our one-eyed friend
This was classic Eye fare with the usual disreputable and sometimes downright disgusting surface readings. (27A Long may it continue.
Monk is often on the tough side. Or so I thought before tackling this.
A Cyclops puzzle that started out easy and got harder as I went on. That shouldn’t happen!
I have done a few Quince puzzles since they appeared a few years ago but I’m not sure I’ve done one with so many questions left unanswered at the end.
I’m suffering weekly bloggers malaise.
That’s where you have bags of time to prepare a blog, and solve the puzzle, take notes, and prepare the main part of the blog but leave the opening words till the last minute. Then on every reminder click “remind me later” till it can’t be ignored. Then realise you have largely forgotten about it all.
So here I am wondering what to say in the first paragraph so I don’t anything give away about this puzzle on the homepage.
I will say …
Cyclops on usual form.
The cast of characters remains pretty constant. Reagan still appearing after all these years. I wonder if Truss will be remembered as long? Maybe she will. We could do with some recompense for the lost billions even if it is just a few shreds of wry humour.
Are Saturday puzzles, or Serpent puzzles, getting harder?
Cyclops gives us his usual prurient take on our playful pastime.
Cyclops is always our gargantuan adversary. But he is never a monster (except at Christmas). I found this harder than many recent Eye puzzles. I had to read all the way down to … Read more >>
An enjoyable puzzle from Tees as usual. The linked clues reference Star Trek’s “Bones” Dr McCoy but unless I’m missing something there isn’t enough in here to be called a … Read more >>
They’re fighting on the streets … … and there are enough subversive extremist factions in this puzzle stirring up trouble. Any despotic ruler in the territory is probably loving it, always best for … Read more >>
This was one of the hardest puzzles I’ve been scheduled to blog for a long time. Some of it was self-inflicted. Solving started well. Thank goodness there was an easy one to get … Read more >>