Never knowingly undersolved
I haven’t been particularly impressed by Otterden’s puzzles in the past, and I’m afraid this one has done nothing to change my opinion. To repeat what I said on a previous occasion, “there … Read more >>
Well I’m back from a land down under and first up is Imogen, not really the name you want whilst jet lagged.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26432.
Hectence returns to the Quiptic slot with a puzzle that I thought had just the right amount of head-scratching required to get the sluggish Monday morning brain into gear.
A fairly typical Rufus puzzle, with the accustomed mix of anagrams and double and cryptic definitions [a couple of which I found a bit puzzling]. Thanks to him for a genial start to … Read more >>
Thanks, Paul for an enjoyable and topical prize puzzle that was characteristically witty (but no lavatory humour this week!).
I really enjoyed this puzzle, which turned out to be more straightforward than it looked at first, because the long answers went in almost immediately, from the enumerations. Parsing them was fun, though, … Read more >>
This was a tricky and sometimes frustrating solve, but with plenty of cleverness to enjoy along the, ahem, way. Quite a few answers were filled in from crossers + definition and parsed afterwards, 4ac was a new word and my last in. Favourites were 19ac/dn, 8dn and 21 dn.
Well, this was a pleasant surprise! When I saw Araucaria’s name on the website I first assumed it must be another Guardian cock-up, but the puzzle itself proved (happily) otherwise. Another surprise was … Read more >>
Nutmeg two days running, now there’s a turn-up for the books. To me this one seemed a little more inventive than yesterday’s Quiptic but not much harder. In fact, subjectively, they both appeared … Read more >>
It’s now past ten of the clock. The fact that I normally have the Quiptic blog out early, being a lark rather than an owl, tells you how I found this one. So … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26425.
I didn’t enjoy this all that much when I first solved it, but then when I wrote up the blog a few days later I found plenty to enjoy. I think I must have just been at a bit of a low ebb at the time. Thanks Picaroon.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26423.