Happy New Year to all at fifteensquared!
It’s been almost 6 months since we last blogged a Monk puzzle, so we were delighted to find one of his puzzles as our first blog of the new decade.
Never knowingly undersolved
Serpent gets the old grey matter stirring today. We always expect a bit of a challenge with Serpent’s puzzles and this was no exception, although we didn’t find it quite as tricky as … Read more >>
Another week, another Friday, another Phi. A pleasant way to end the week. We had to check a couple of definitions – TAIKO and LABIALISM but we managed to sort things out using … Read more >>
Tees teases us today….. …. but we’re afraid we didn’t really enjoy solving this puzzle – it didn’t raise any smiles and seemed to be a mixture of some very straightforward clues and … Read more >>
We only seem to come across Filbert once a month, and we have only blogged one of his previous puzzles – but from past experience, we knew we were in for a bit … Read more >>
It’s Eccles again in the Wednesday slot – we’re in for some fun. As we have come to expect, this was an enjoyable solve with some great surfaces and several laugh-out-loud moments – … Read more >>
We realised that we were in for a bumpy ride when we saw that today’s puzzle is a Serpent In the event, we found this to be less challenging than we had expected, … Read more >>
Phi is back to his usual day this week after a brief excursion to the weekend last Saturday The first thing we noticed about the puzzle was the large square in the middle, … Read more >>
It’s Tuesday – theme day – and a Knut to blog – what more could we ask for? Answer – nothing! A really enjoyable solve with a theme that revealed itself gently as … Read more >>
An enjoyable Saturday solve from Klingsor today. The SE corner held us up for a bit but once we had solved the clues, we wondered why we’d had a problem. Our favourite clue … Read more >>
A TEES puzzle today to tease our senses. There were three idioms within the final grid today, two of which contained long anagrams which we enjoyed ‘teesing’ out. We had to check one … Read more >>
Instructions Crossing solutions to the clues clash in eight of the squares. The correct letters to enter in the puzzle spell out, in grid order top to bottom, a name connected with the … Read more >>
Happy New Year to all at fifteensquared!
It’s been almost 6 months since we last blogged a Monk puzzle, so we were delighted to find one of his puzzles as our first blog of the new decade.
The festivities are over and we have a Phi to amuse us at the end of this week. When 12ac went in we did wonder about a cricket theme but cannot find any … Read more >>
It’s Loglady today. It’s also Tuesday and Loglady has given us a themed puzzle based around TEXTILE (9ac). There were a few that needed some checking and we both hold opposite views on … Read more >>
Eccles seems to have become a worthy replacement for Dac’s former role as our regular midweek setter As usual, this was a really enjoyable solve – no unusual words, and consistently good clueing, … Read more >>