Never knowingly undersolved
duncanshiell Kruger’s puzzle takes us into the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations this week. The preamble was fairly short and clear. It stated: Twelve clues contain a misprint in their definition. The correct letters, in … Read more >>
Serpent is the setter in the Independent today and he provided a serious challenge for me. There is a theme here in that all the entries in the outer rows and columns are … Read more >>
Unsurprisingly Phi provides the first Friday puzzle of February. I am defeated by the wordplay for one of the entries so look forward to being enlightened. At 12 down the entry is obviously … Read more >>
Wire provides a typical Tuesday Independent crossword Tuesday is usually a theme day and today clearly focused on the other side of the world with many references to Australia or Australian culture. Even … Read more >>
Hoskins tests our skills today There are lots of references to drugs, drinks and bawdy activity in the clues, but that I think that is just typical Hoskins’ phraseology in cluing rather than a … Read more >>
Quixote makes a return to the Inquisitor series this week, 4 years and 5 months after his previous puzzle. Still that’s shorter than the gap back to the one before that which was … Read more >>
Rodriguez taxes our cruciverbal skills today. Rodriguez has managed to get a musical reference into every clue. The majority of the references are music genres. Getting a musical allusion into … Read more >>
A plain competition puzzle from Azed this week This was a week where I solved more clues on the first pass through than I usually do. We had the usual … Read more >>
Phi gives us a good challenge to end the working week (if there is such a standard thing these days) The English language is fascinating with the variety of different … Read more >>
Hob provides Tuesday’s entertainment. There’s usually a theme on Tuesday’s Independent. Today, Hob celebrates [maybe not the right word] the MURDER of THOMAS BECKET in CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL which led to … Read more >>
Maize has given us a puzzle with the type of wordplay that I most enjoy. There’s quite a lot of components to the wordplay today as evidenced by the many … Read more >>
Kruger has set this week’s Inquisitor Note that the final word of the clue at 7 down was corrected from ‘reptile’ to ‘amphibian’ in the following week’s newspaper. The change … Read more >>
A puzzle from Phi on a Thursday is unusual. Either another setter has a special reason for getting the Friday slot or Phi has something going on today. The grid … Read more >>
Phi brings the standard working week to a close as is usual. The shortest entry has given me the greatest problem in parsing today. I think the wordplay for TOO … Read more >>
It’s over a year since I blogged a Dalibor puzzle, so it’s good to get another opportunity. As I finished the blog, I realised that it was a Tuesday, so … Read more >>