Never knowingly undersolved
Another excellent puzzle from Nutmeg, which started seeming a bit impenetrable, but yielded steadily and satisfyingly. Thanks to this gem of a setter. Across 1. THROUGH TRAFFIC … Read more >>
What can one say? Just what we know we are going to get from Rufus on a Monday. A gentle start to the week with not too much wordplay to ponder over. . … Read more >>
I daresay, relatively speaking, I spent more time on this than most Cryptics. Thanks to Anto. I recall that commenters (mostly) rounded on this setter in his/her previous outings. Déjà vu! Definitions are … Read more >>
A witty and topical Prize puzzle from Shed, whose name I was pleased to see for my first Prize blog of the new year. [The puzzle was published on the day that the … 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.) Found this easy enough to start … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26774.
I’m in rather grumpy mode this morning: I’m in the minority here, I think, in that I actually pay for the paper – and hence the crossword – and so it was annoying, … Read more >>
Took a while to get started, sped up in the middle, and hesitantly entered in the last few. Favourites were 21ac and 16dn.
If Rufus has made any New Year’s resolutions, then “use fewer cryptic definitions” clearly isn’t one of them. Seven here (and four doubles), several of which I find pretty weak. Still, I know … Read more >>
A sound Quiptic from Pan. Perhaps a bit tricky in places, but I’ll put that down to having been roughed up by Radian in the Independent earlier on this morning. … Read more >>
The preamble states that: In one way or another 20,9 is missing from each clue. Our first one in was 21d – INNARDS which actually turned out to be incorrect but it took … Read more >>
Some lovely clues here, but we found this puzzle very tough, which I imagine will be the case for many solvers. The special instructions were: Definitions in nine clues lead to solutions (one … Read more >>
After yesterday’s duffing-up by Enigmatist and friends, it was a bit of a relief to get this much gentler, but still enjoyable, offering from Philistine as the first puzzle of 2016. Thanks to … Read more >>
This year’s Christmas puzzle was a double alphabetical jigsaw with a twist: half the clues lacked a definition.
(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.) Quite a tricky end to the … Read more >>