Never knowingly undersolved
Good entertainment from Paul as usual. Most of this went in fairly easily, though there are a couple of places where I’m not totally convinced by my explanations. … Read more >>
Don’t remember doing a Philistine blog before, quite fun though.
A delightful puzzle, albeit a tad difficult for a Quiptic. Most of the definitions given are from Chambers 12th Edition. Most of the standard abbreviations used in the wordplay are shown with the … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26245. Those who follow this blog may know that Rufus is not my favourite setter, but I found this among his best. Across 1. Type of … Read more >>
I think this is the first time I’ve come up in the rotation to write the blog post about a big bank holiday puzzle, which is quite exciting. This was a themed puzzle … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26243. I thought this a fairly gentle end to the week, with ingenious use of relatively simple constructions – indeed, it was a pleasure to blog. … Read more >>
I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that Boatman led me a bit of a dance today but it was a very enjoyable one, with lots of twists and turns and smiles … Read more >>
Was expecting to breeze through this after getting several of the longer clues almost immediately, but got held up in the top left corner…
A nice mixture of clues from Qaos in this one, with some easy ones to get me going and others that took a bit of working out. I have quibbles about a couple … Read more >>
Today was going to be Writinghawk’s final appearance as he will be leaving the country shortly and going to a location with poor/no internet access. However, it seems that something has prevented him … Read more >>
This puzzle contained a combination of very easy clues with others which were really quite taxing.
(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.) This was by no means a … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26236. It would hardly be a Gordius puzzle without some quibbles, but in my book they are minor this time out. Across 7. Time a pint’s … Read more >>
I don’t think there will be so many ‘too easy’ protests today but there might be some complaints about unusual words. In fact, however, this puzzle turned out to be less frightening than … Read more >>