Never knowingly undersolved
Having blogged a Paul puzzle the day before, I assumed that the fairly regular pattern of my monthly Saturday blog coinciding with Paul’s usually regular fortnightly appearance in that slot had been temporarily … Read more >>
A quicker solve than expected from a Friday Nutmeg, with some very neat cluing and a few trickier bits of parsing. Favourites were 10ac, 15ac, 26ac, 5dn, and 20dn.
Quite a tricky one, as usual with Boatman, not helped by the unfriendly grid, with its almost isolated four sub-grids. There seems to be a bit of a theme of modern (usually business-related) … Read more >>
A gentle puzzle with an “aard” to spot theme?
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28137. The keystone clue is 17A RHINO, used in other clues in the slang sense of money. At times, the puzzle seemed to be an exercise in … Read more >>
Vulcan starts the week with a typical Monday medley of charades, anagrams and double and cryptic [some more so than others] definitions. There are a couple of old favourites at 27ac and 7dn, … Read more >>
A delightful Quiptic from Carpathian, just right for new and improving solvers, in my opinion. To that end, I have tried to give full explanations of all the clues, but if you are … Read more >>
We’d probably solved 10 clues before realising the “translation” from numbers to letter that was needed, even though in retrospect it should have been one of the first things we thought of! I … Read more >>
It’s Paul to round off the weekday puzzles – a reasonably stiff challenge, with lots of great clues, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Many thanks, Paul. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9 … Read more >>
Tricky in parts, with some gentler clues that eased me in. Favourites were 18ac, 25ac, 26ac, and 19dn. Thanks to Vlad.
I found this quite easy by Imogen’s standards, with the two long downs going in quickly and providing lots of helpful letters. A few slight obscurities, but all helpfully clued. No theme that … Read more >>
A themed puzzle from Tramp in this morning’s Guardian, which can be found here.
(Apologies for late posting: there have been some issues with Fifteensquared’s website hosting today.) As usual, Hectence gets the level just right for a Quiptic, and many of the clues are good examples … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28130. There are some good clues here, but some inadequate, which gives me the feeling that I am not missing too much even in the clues that … Read more >>
Unusually, Paul has given us a themed puzzle for this week’s Saturday crossword. (“Prize” in the title should be read metaphorically). I can’t remember the last time that Paul gave us a themed … Read more >>