Never knowingly undersolved
Tuesday fun from Qaos, including one of his trademark numerical clues (and a couple of other mathematical references). Thanks to Qaos. .. and of course a theme: I was tipped off by seeing … Read more >>
A gentle start to the week.
Anto appears in his regular spot setting this week’s Quiptic – with nothing too outrageous and some neat anagrams. The crossword can be found here.
This is the forty-first 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.
An unusual twist to this week’s Prize made it quite challenging.
I’m standing in for scchua today and it’s Paul rounding off the weekday puzzles. Following the idea used in his two most recent puzzles, featuring sandwiches and parties, Paul offers us one with … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29587.
It’s Pasquale making his first appearance of the new year. The two long anagrams were helpful in getting started. There are perhaps one or two more unfamiliar / unknown words than usual but, … Read more >>
Thanks to Brummie for the puzzle, and apologies for a late and slightly rushed blog.
A welcome return by Brendan, with an unusual grid in which all the answers the two long central ones have eight letters. Thanks to Brendan. The long answers are nicely self-descriptive, and (as … Read more >>
Picaroon has become quite the regular across all the Guardian crossword offerings, and it’s always a pleasure to blog one of his Quiptics. This one is well-judged as always, I think. Abbreviations cd … Read more >>
Kite sets the last Genius challenge of 2024.
The preamble says:
Related features are omitted from wordplay in half the clues. Wordplay in other clues indicates an extra letter in each. The additional letters can be arranged to identify the related features.
This is the fortieth 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.
What could be more traditional than doing a jigsaw over the Xmas/New Year period?! Kite provides an alphabetical one for us here, and also provides me with the opportunity for my 500th blog on this site…