Never knowingly undersolved
Well – a nostalgic theme from Kairos today. This brought back memories of ‘Children’s Favourites’ from the 1950s – a ‘cumulative’ song recorded by Burl Ives which regularly featured on the programme. Click … Read more >>
I found this difficult in places and finished it in a stop/start fashion.
A good puzzle for solvers just starting out or those simply wanting a gentle puzzle post Sunday lunch. I enjoyed this in the latter category. Thank you Sphere.
We don’t see a great deal of Math, and I make this only the third appearance since a welcome return to the Independent this year. This seemed to be on the more tractable … Read more >>
I thought this was a typical Phi puzzle with some excellent clues. I finished this puzzle and thought that there can’t be theme using these entries.. Then I thought, this is … Read more >>
Tees has been kind to us today. Yes, the odd classical etc reference, but all fairly gentle. I wouldn’t say that I whizzed through this, but certainly it was less daunting than it might have been. And all well-executed, so far as I can see.
Definitions underlined and in maroon.
We look forward to a classic solve when we’re tackling a Wednesday Dac, but unfortunately we found this one a little disappointing. However, we can’t quite put a finger on why we feel … Read more >>
It was Wiglaf’s latest puzzle that lay in store for me this Tuesday morning. I found this one to be a very enjoyable, medium-difficulty solve. I suspected early on that I would probably … Read more >>
I have to admit that I found this tough (and I’m not even going to say ‘tough for a Monday puzzle’ because we’ve gone beyond that). But that could just be me not … Read more >>
I don’t know what’s happened to the scheduled blogger today but here is a quick, and very belated, analysis of the clues. Across 7 Kid is the first person in Paris to get … Read more >>
Apart from the hard nuts (Anax and Nimrod) evidence is accumulating that since the Saturday puzzle stopped being a Prize puzzle the level of difficulty has gone down a bit. Which is fine by me as … Read more >>
The usual very pleasing crossword from Phi, with the musical references that we have come to expect. He is always easy enough to understand once a clue is solved, but not I find always all that easy to get one’s teeth into. Perhaps this is because his definitions are so well-concealed.
Definitions underlined.
An interesting but tricky puzzle from Rodriguez today. We tend to tackle crosswords in numerical order, and we had considerable difficulty with several of the across clues, particularly on the right hand side … Read more >>
This was the second time that I had come to the Wednesday puzzle expecting to have to cross swords with Dac and finding Hoskins instead. My first experience of Hoskins had Sunderland A.F.C. … Read more >>
Crosophile has given us what I think is a theme and message free crossword today. The first few acrosses went in very quickly but it then took me a while to … Read more >>