Never knowingly undersolved
You haven’t fallen asleep and woken up on Monday. From now on the Eye blog will now appear on Saturday. One of those that I thought was going to be a doddle, then … Read more >>
With effect from Cyclops puzzle 749, the Private Eye blog will appear on Saturday rather than Monday. Saturday makes more sense since the closing date/time for entries is (presumably) midnight on Fridays.
Cyclops has, serendipitously, put his finger on the pulse of the Zeitgeist this fortnight…
Last issue’s puzzle was said to be a touch morose. At least this one didn’t invoke the ghost of Trump or Johnson. However it did include some more minor sprites like Penny Mordaunt … Read more >>
Cyclops seems to be a bit down-in-the-dumps this fortnight…
What do you get if you cross Rishi Sunak with Mike Pence? A Riski Sikspence? Maybe not, but you certainly get some way to filling-in this grid. This was at about medium difficulty … Read more >>
Some (reasonably) topical targets in this fortnight’s puzzle from Cyclops…
Here we are again with the big one. The Xmas special The one that takes a very long time to finish because there are so many clues. This crossword has a preamble: Running … Read more >>
After Saturday’s Grauniad Brummie, a Private Eye puzzle by Cyclops, his naughty alter ego – Dr Jekyll to Brummie’s Mr Hyde…
The main pages of Private Eye are getting a bit depressing what with all the useless, arrogant, bullying politicians, all the scandals that are never properly addressed by the compliant media, and the … Read more >>
Cyclops doing what Cyclops does…
In case you’re wondering, ’twas I who had the happy surprise! For the very first time, I have gone and done the puzzle in one pass! I suppose through all these years of … Read more >>
Cyclops is on good form this week – and doesn’t seem to have been overtaken by the fast-moving events of the last week or so…
You find me blogging this a few days after Truss & Kwarteng set the wheels in motion so that they fall off the cart that is carrying the country. They seem to be … Read more >>
I can imagine Cyclops, along with many other setters, is having to rummage through his standard references and update/delete a few items…and recent events may have overtaken the normal cadence of the setting/editing/publication cycle…