Never knowingly undersolved
mc_rapper67 …that seems to be the choice, at the start of this momentous week, and Cyclops has his finger pretty much on the pulse… …with LIKE IT OR LUMP IT seeming to sum up the … Read more >>
I signed off my last Indy Saturday blog (Klingsor’s Munster-ous 9991) with ‘…see you in the 10,000s…’ and, lo and behold, here he is again on my next shift, five weeks later… …making … Read more >>
An interesting looking grid from Artix with the THEME LINE – 13×13, but missing the corners, so only 165 cells to fill! – and some rare-ish mirror symmetry…what ‘line’ will we be taken … Read more >>
An enjoyable Cyclops solve – some politics, some smut, some more politics and then a bit more smut… Trump gets four mentions in the clues – although two are just to get to … Read more >>
Paul often lets his quirkiness run free when he is let loose in the (almost-)anything-goes Wild-Wild West frontier of the Genius… …and he doesn’t disappoint here! The preamble states that: “2 11 by 21 … Read more >>
Two Saturday Klingsors in a row for me – on our five-weekly schedule – as the Indy cryptic verges on a new millennium… This seemed to be a mixed bag of some pretty … Read more >>
A physics-based puzzle from Encota – will my 35-year-old Physics ‘A’ Level be of use? Will there be an ADM (apple-drop moment), rather than the usual PDM?… The preamble states that; “Three pairs of entries … Read more >>
When you have Charles, Brenda, Trump, Clinton, May, Boris, Thatcher, Corbyn and (Jeffrey) Archer all making appearances in the clues, it has to be a Cyclops! Quite light on the smut-tery for a … Read more >>
A nicely constructed grid and a reasonably challenging puzzle in REMAINDER from Gaston this week… The preamble states that: “This week, a large thematic group are bound for the entry in the central … Read more >>
Cyclops is pretty much on-the-button this fortnight, with some familiar establishment targets, and a recently-resigned minister, to boot… Some historical references too – MUSSOLINI, Queen Vic’s (apocryphal?) saying – (we are) NOT AMUSED … Read more >>
If this puzzle from Klingsor was a meal, I rushed through the starter, and choked on a couple of small bones towards the end…but was left with a sweet taste overall… I made fairly … Read more >>
A complex and multi-layered EV this week, which I think I solved, and definitely submitted, but can’t fully explain… The preamble states that: “The puzzle’s theme is a six-word phrase. A word that … Read more >>
A fairly routine puzzle from Cyclops…nothing obviously topical or too complicated… …which is handy, as I am currently ‘walkabout’ in Australia on a family holiday, with minimal spare time for solving/blogging. A quick … Read more >>
A fairly tough Saturday workout from Punk this weekend… …nothing obvious (to me) on the thematic/Nina front, but some complicated parsings and nice surface readings. PORK SCRATCHINGS, GENE SIMMONS and LEAD SINGER among my … Read more >>
Some nifty footwork from Samuel this week…