Never knowingly undersolved
I didn’t seem to be on the right wavelength at all this morning so found this quite hard, though in retrospect almost everything seems reasonably straightforward, with the exception of one clue that … Read more >>
Thank you to Ludwig. Definitions are underlined in the clues. And if there is a theme, I don’t see it. Across 1. Marriage added to traditions that we recently abandoned (7,5) CUSTOMS UNION … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29610.
It’s only ten days since my blog of Imogen’s latest Prize crossword and here he is again… … and again we have a nice combination of clue types, generally meticulous cluing, ingenious constructions, … Read more >>
A nice puzzle – I particularly liked 5ac and 27ac. Thanks to Brummie
A fine Quiptic from Pasquale this morning. If my blog appears terse, it’s because it’s all so clearly clued that there’s not much else to say other than bravo for a well-pitched puzzle. … Read more >>
A reasonably straightforward Genius this month.
This is the forty-fourth Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords. The whole point of these crosswords is support and encouragement of new solvers, so special rules for these crosswords apply – see here – those rules include not posting solving times. This puzzle can be found here.
Vlad gives your correspondent a pretty tough mental workout this week…
A fun challenge with neat surfaces and some tricky parsing. My favourites were 8ac, 11ac, 12ac, 26ac, and 7dn. Thanks to Brockwell
Good to see another (final?) puzzle from the pirate before he goes into setting Purdah in his new job at the Telegraph. A smooth and witty set of clues, as we’ve come to … Read more >>
A typical Qaos puzzle.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29603.
It’s been one of those weekends when my monthly Prize blog coincided with the Friday / Monday blogging overlap, so you get me three days running (with an Imogen / Vulcan combination to … Read more >>
Thank you to Carpathian. Definitions are underlined in the clues.