Never knowingly undersolved
Always a pleasure when I click open the Quiptic and see that Carpathian is the setter. Another delightful and accessible puzzle for beginners from her this morning. There are two little points of … Read more >>
I haven’t blogged about a Paul in a little while, so this was a nice treat! Particularly notable for me was the number of very nice double definitions here. Thanks, Paul! Across 5. … Read more >>
A fun puzzle – found it slow going at the start until I worked out a few of the longer solutions. Favourites were 1ac, 21ac, and 15dn. Thanks to Maskarade
Another great puzzle from Picaroon. Not easy, with some tricky constructions and devious definitions, but well worth the effort and satisfying to finish. Thanks to Picaroon. Across 1 DISCOMBOBULATE Throw party, performing … Read more >>
Imogen's today's Guardian setter.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28705.
Anto’s usual trickier-than-your-average Quiptic. Contains strong language.
It’s almost exactly a year since my last blog of a Carpathian puzzle and there has been only one cryptic one, among eight Quiptics, since then. I’d like to see Carpathian more often … Read more >>
A puzzle based on Jules Verne’s novel (recently serialised on the BBC).
Picaroon rounds off a good week of puzzles with an entertaining medley of ingenious constructions, witty definitions and amusing surfaces – a typical Picaroon puzzle, then. I learned new expressions at 12ac and … Read more >>
A fun solve…
A lot of straightforward clues here, making this a very quick solve for me. Thanks to Qaos. It took me rather longer to identify the theme, which is the DISCWORLD novels of Terry … Read more >>
Brendan provides this morning's brain teaser.
A debut Quiptic puzzle from Chandler, and a fine one it was too. I can only find one Chandler puzzle in the archive, and that was a Genius back from 2019. This was … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28698.