Guardian Quiptic

This puzzle would have benefited from more accurate checking as there appears to be two errors (18ac & 13dn) unless I’ve missed something. Edit: perhaps I have missed something in 13dn (thanks Cookie @3). I had … Read more >>

This little baby took some considerable time to put to bed.  I tried singing and cuddling, but there’s still one I don’t understand; so Nutmeg’s puzzle is still not quite asleep.     … Read more >>

I swear on my life that I’m going to take up religion again, so that a deity can intercede on my behalf and arrange that I never again find myself having to blog … Read more >>

A nice and neat and easy enough Quiptic. Thanks to Hectence. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 9 Fashionable mink has one consumed with anger (9) INFURIATE : IN(fashionable, as in “the in-crowd”) … Read more >>

When I started solving and blogging this morning, there wasn’t a setter’s name on the puzzle.  No matter – I enjoyed solving and blogging it.       Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition dd  … Read more >>

Very good Quiptic from Pan for our bank holiday entertainment – or at least for those of us who are enjoying a bank holiday today.         Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition … Read more >>

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A Quiptic from our favourite Spice Girl this morning.  And a fine one it was too.  Beginners would have enjoyed this, I think.       Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition dd  double definition … Read more >>

A good Quiptic from our guinea-pig lover.  Tough in places, though.  What did you think?       Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition dd  double definition (xxxx)*  anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x]  letter(s) … 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.)  A quick solve, especially suitable for … Read more >>

Always a pleasure to solve and blog an Orlando Quiptic.  He’s good at this stuff, you know.       Abbreviations cd  cryptic definition dd  double definition (xxxx)*  anagram anagrind = anagram indicator … Read more >>