Another fun-packed episode from our one-eyed friend
This was classic Eye fare with the usual disreputable and sometimes downright disgusting surface readings. (27A Long may it continue.
Private Eye/Cyclops
Cyclops 788 – Boorish Earworm
Cyclops has a couple of topical references this fortnight, and thankfully none of them involves Ronald T Dump…
Private Eye (Cyclops/787) Sorry Oligarchy
A Cyclops puzzle that started out easy and got harder as I went on. That shouldn’t happen!
Cyclops 786 – Celebrate Gnome
Cyclops seems to have some fundamental things on his mind, this fortnight…
Private Eye (Cyclops/785) Absymal Setback
I’m suffering weekly bloggers malaise.
That’s where you have bags of time to prepare a blog, and solve the puzzle, take notes, and prepare the main part of the blog but leave the opening words till the last minute. Then on every reminder click “remind me later” till it can’t be ignored. Then realise you have largely forgotten about it all.
Cyclops 784 – Gymnast Stiffy
This fortnight’s title alludes to the, maybe apocryphal, story/video doing the e-rounds of a pole-vaulter who successfully negotiated the bar on his way up but then dislodged it on the way down with his…
Private Eye (Cyclops/783) Gorgeous Member
Cyclops on usual form.
The cast of characters remains pretty constant. Reagan still appearing after all these years. I wonder if Truss will be remembered as long? Maybe she will. We could do with some recompense for the lost billions even if it is just a few shreds of wry humour.
Cyclops 782 – Tory cul-de-sac
Cyclops has presumably had to do some pretty nifty footwork during a six-week election campaign…and is probably feverishly working away at some new names, with a new political complexion to the government…and binning a load of his bank of clues relating to the outgoing administration…
Private Eye (Cyclops/781) Fatalistic Pollster
Cyclops gives us his usual prurient take on our playful pastime.
Cyclops 780 – Ignorant Scaremongering
Cyclops might have been caught a bit off guard by the announcement of the General Election, given setting lead times and the fortnightly publication cadence, but he seems to have hit one nail on the head…
Private Eye (Cyclops/ 779) Gargantuan Adversary
Cyclops is always our gargantuan adversary. But he is never a monster (except at Christmas). I found this harder than many recent Eye puzzles. I had to read all the way down to … Read more >>
Cyclops 778 – Republican Convict
Cyclops seems to be putting a prediction out there this fortnight…
Private Eye (Cyclops / 777) Subversive Brainwave
They’re fighting on the streets … … and there are enough subversive extremist factions in this puzzle stirring up trouble. Any despotic ruler in the territory is probably loving it, always best for … Read more >>
Cyclops 776 – Right-wing Jester
Cyclops is on tip-top form this fortnight, with some great surface reads and relatively topical material (given the constraints of setting lead times and a fortnightly publication, and a little Truss-ian serendipity)…