Private Eye/Cyclops

… and the grim truth is – it isn’t all just a joke This was solved at a rate of knots.  Straight in with the unwelcome reminder of current government policy at 7A … Read more >>

A more UK-centric Cyclops this time round – the odd Trump/Clinton reference in the clues, but a host of old favourites in May, Boris, Gove, Nicola Sturgeon, the Speaker and the ‘shadow cabinet … Read more >>

Cyclops is giving us a very bleak analysis of the state of the world with a Trump heavy set of clues However the puzzle itself proved to be one of the quickest solves … Read more >>

1A of this puzzle sums the last week or so up perfectly…’US era’s, er, done for – cheer up!‘ And then it goes on to give some mixed messages about the past, present and future … Read more >>

It’s Christmas! So it’s the giant 21×21 sized Eye crossword with some special feature. This puzzle has a preamble: Running clockwise around the shaded squares, starting top left, are two sentences from a 2016 … Read more >>

A few Trump-ian references this time round – let’s face it, he will be ‘the gift that keeps on giving’ to satirists and crossword setters for the next four years – and the … Read more >>

Not the trickiest of solves this time, and as usual full of topical references. There were still a few that I struggled over such as WRAITH and PARALYSE so a nice one. Across 6 … Read more >>

…or ‘One No-Trump’, maybe, as I think this is the first Cyclops in a while not to mention the orange-skinned self-publicist…thank goodness the US election is over, and we won’t have to worry … Read more >>

A puzzle centred on the phrase “Bloody difficult woman”.   Ken Clarke’s observation <link>  which was caught on mic during this summer’s Tory leadership non-election.  I imagine as soon as the story broke Cyclops delighting in using … Read more >>

Sixteen days to go in the mud-slinging gutter-trawling (least-un)popularity contest that is the US election, and both Trump and Clinton references abound in this week’s Cyclops…hopefully he’ll have some closer-to-home Brexit machinations and … Read more >>

It’s Private Eye. It’s Brummie.  You get what you expect. A middlingly difficult puzzle.  Half in after the first pass and nothing that didn’t submit after a bunch of crossing letters were in. … Read more >>

After my suggestion that Cyclops 580 was maybe a tad ‘lite’ on the usual Cyclops-ean smuttiness, this one certainly redresses the balance! Some focus on the American election as well… …giving it out … Read more >>

Another mid range Eye puzzle in terms of trickiness. Ten answered after the first pass, thus nearly half the grid filled. Bottom right corner holding out till last but even the very last … Read more >>

After a momentous few weeks of Brexit, political resignations and shenanigans (et tu Gové?!), and Cameron’s lavender list, the 15×15 world has been rocked by its own J-exit – the resignation of JetDoc from the Cyclops blog. … Read more >>