Guardian Quiptic

We’ve not seen Orlando in the Quiptic for ages, but this is a very welcome return visit.  Immaculately clued and perfect for this slot.       Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition dd  double … Read more >>

(Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.)   Thanks to Pan for a puzzle … Read more >>

Moley has produced a fine Quiptic for us this morning.  Plenty of Easy Annies to get us going, then the rest clearly clued with some lovely surfaces.  And as we have remarked many … Read more >>

Goodness, it’s many a moon since we last saw a Quiptic from Beale.  Perhaps the editor was tidying out his filing cabinet and found this one at the back.  I found it hard. … Read more >>

I enjoyed this one, as I usually do with a Pan puzzle.  What did you think?  My objective for today is to get a lurker to make his or her first comment, since … Read more >>

Moley has transformed herself into Mary Poppins this morning.   If you talk to setters, they will say that compiling ‘easy’ puzzles is actually the hardest thing to do, because you’ve almost got … Read more >>

Took me a while to get started with this one, but that could just be me in lazy Bank Holiday mood.  It all fell out steadily in the end, with some clues I … Read more >>

A new Quiptic setter today, to whom welcome.  However, he or she is not going to welcome my thoughts on the puzzle that appeared as a Quiptic today.  This can be a brutal … Read more >>

Thanks to Provis. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1    Exclude man with a head scarf (7) BANDANA : BAN(to exclude) + DAN(a man’s name) plus(with) A. 5    It is found in skull contents … Read more >>

Not sure what to make of this one.  The grid wasn’t helpful to the solve; there were some clues I found hard to parse; and I think one clue is faulty.     … Read more >>