Never knowingly undersolved
A festive offering from Everyman – clearly clued and good fun as always. There were a number of clues that related to the festive season – which I hope you all enjoyed. Best … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning to you all, Good all round puzzle this week, I enjoyed it immensly. Lots of anagrams which is one of my favourite type of clue. I thought 26ac was a good … Read more >>
Another very sound set of clues from Azed, making full use of the more obscure meanings of words. You always know where you stand with Azed. If you feel unhappy with the parsing … Read more >>
A couple of things that might be unfamiliar, but mostly the usual precise clues.
I solved this early in the week… but forgot to write up my notes until early this morning. So I’m regressing to the mean: after a reasonably long spell of decoding all of … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning happy solvers, Nothing to difficult this week, seemed pretty straight forward to me. I absolutely loved 18ac, what an excellent clue. 4dn was also very good. I enjoyed solving this weeks … Read more >>
Again a lovely sound crossword from Azed. I won’t waste time by copying out Chambers but as usual will confine myself to trying to explain how the clues work, something that wasn’t always … Read more >>
Perhaps a more tricky Everyman than usual, but I’m interested to know what others think … Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator … Read more >>
The first thing that struck me about this puzzle was the unusually open grid, with wide open unbarred spaces, especially in the NE and SW corners. The two 13-letter across answers have only … Read more >>
Nick: A fairly difficult Azed this week being a Letters Latent puzzle. He does give a way in though with the comment in the preamble about anagrams (for those that are new to … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning happy solvers. Nice flowing crossword this week I thought, particular favourites were 4, 14, 18 and 27ac. 8, 11 and 16dn. There should not have been anything too taxing although if … Read more >>
A reasonably straightforward Azed this week, with no particular problems (except one!) and a very friendly grid (only 2 unches in an 11 letter word). The problem is 10 across, which refers to … Read more >>
A typical Everyman, I think: a clear notch above beginner level. Across 1 Mug and flag held by jockey (6) VISAGE An envelope (‘held by’) of SAG (‘flag’) in VIE (‘jockey’). 4 Peering … Read more >>
Lorraine: Good morning one and all, I really struggled this week, I certainly didn’t have my crossword head on at all, so Nick came to the rescue. Below, the analysis and comments are from … Read more >>
This was a standard Azed competition puzzle in that all the clues were normal, except for the one entry that has to be clued by competitiors withm their submissions. I … Read more >>