Never knowingly undersolved
Simon Harding *=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. I must admit I’ve slowly become something of a fan of Nimrod’s work despite initially struggling with his style. This one seemed relatively easy overall, … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. A puzzle from a no doubt excellent setter whose style I’ve sadly never quite managed to get to grips with, and a somewhat distracted solve … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. Quite tough going this week but I got there, albeit lacking explanations for a couple (14 and 4, for which I’ve reproduced the wordplay here). … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. A very enjoyable arts/literature themed one from Dac, with the usual rock-solid clueing and some chuckles along the way – 1 ac was a gem. … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. Excellent stuff as always. I found it unusually tough to get started, but then things started to flow nicely. Across 1 ROSY – ROS[-ar]Y. 4 … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. A fairly straightforward one for the most part, I think, although I did have to resort to a bit of cheating to finish it off … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. I found this unusually tough this week, but no less enjoyable for it. There’s at least of couple of lovely long anagrams which I particularly … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. Math is another setter whose puzzles I’ve never happened to blog before. I found this one inventive, and quite challenging in places. There’s a couple … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. I seemed to race through this one, although writing in USABLE at 16ac eventually caught up with me. Many thanks to Gaufrid for helping me … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. I think this is the first time I’ve blogged a Nestor. It was jolly good either way, with inventive but solid clueing and some impressive … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. An interesting exercise in “words that are like other words, but with the initial letter chopped off”. I think it took longer to type out … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. All back to normal this week after a couple of themed Beelzebubs, with clueing as solid as ever. The eagle-eyed may question how Beelzebub 1,001 … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. Aha, so here’s this week’s Dac. Whilst I do have a habit of missing such things, there doesn’t appear to be any particular Mayday theme … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. What with last week‘s excitement, and a further auspicious puzzle number, one wondered what to expect this week. What we got was an understated theme, … Read more >>
*=anag, []=dropped, <=reversed, hom=homophone, cd=cryptic definition, dd=double definition. A typically high-quality Friday Phi, I think. The SE corner put up a bit of a fight for me, but apart from that it all … Read more >>