Private Eye/Cyclops

An Eye puzzle on the hard side this time, but still on puerile form. Solving, I found this more of a struggle than usual.  While there were a few that fell quickly at … Read more >>

I found this much harder than many recent Cyclops puzzles… …it took several passes and an educated guess at an unknown (to me) person at 23A before I got my LOI – BICYCLE … Read more >>

Solving was one of those times when a couple of hasty wrong answers put the kibosh on a quick solve. At the first pass I only had gaps at the top left and … Read more >>

Some traditional establishment targets, some smutty references…it is a Cyclops, it does what it says on the tin… The surface readings at 8A and 11A don’t bear too much thinking, and 10A is … Read more >>

Don’t let your pencil get too frenzied!  Make sure your X is fully within the appropriate box when you vote on Thursday.  Do not make it into an hourglass and surround it with … Read more >>

Cyclops is as Cyclops does – some fun with surface readings, some usual targets, and maybe just a tad too much Trump(?)… Some ancient history at 21D – Archimedes’ supposed EUREKA ‘ejaculation’ in … Read more >>

One of those where the last one in was the first one read and failed to solve, several times: 1A  where I got totally fixated that the definition was some kind of egg … Read more >>

A nice, solid Cyclops-ean puzzle – nothing too mind-boggling, with some smooth surface reads and interesting clueing along the way… in these not-quite-nearly-maybe Br-exit/Brit-in times, there is plenty to reflect the mood… BAD … Read more >>

Quite a quick solve again. Only half a dozen gaps after the first pass mostly in the top right where 5A Fillip and 11A Scrutineer gave me the most trouble.  All the wordplay … Read more >>

I couldn’t scientifically or statistically tell you if this was a below/above average or completely typical Cyclops…but I know a man who could…(see below) In fact I have to admit I solved and … Read more >>

I thought this was going to be over too soon. I swept through most of the top half after getting 1a and 4 with ease delivering all those first letters, (I wondered about … Read more >>

After the fun-and-games of the wonderful Xmas special, we are back to ‘normal’ Cyclops… …with lots of Brexit-ian parallels that can be drawn – politicians are CHEWING THE CUD this weekend, before more CHEAP … Read more >>

Headmistress has written quite a lot – 585 pages I hear. So I suppose we should be thankful this annual giant puzzle is still only 27×27 instead of something much larger. The puzzle … Read more >>

Private Eye snuck out a 1-week issue so by now most of you will be stuck into the Christmas monster.  I’m going to start just as soon as I’ve posted this blog. Solving: … Read more >>

…that seems to be the choice, at the start of this momentous week, and Cyclops has his finger pretty much on the pulse… …with LIKE IT OR LUMP IT seeming to sum up the … Read more >>