Never knowingly undersolved
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…
When I get the first clue attempted as quickly as I did 1D here I always wonder if this is the time for the fabled “done in one pass” solve – Alas, no. … Read more >>
By my reckoning, Cyclops only has one more puzzle after this to use up all his BoJo references, before he has to switch to either LiTr or RiSu… (I hope their marketing people are working on better memes than those!…)
We need an Emergency Turnip to enter the race to be new PM – bound to do a better job than whoever we’re going to get. I made the silly mistake of trying … Read more >>
It must be very annoying for a politically involved crossword setter when politics has times like this. Setting the puzzle must happen at least of a couple of weeks before it is published, … Read more >>
Things have all got a bit tawdry recently, haven’t they…still, we have the ‘sunlit uplands’ to look forward to…are we there yet?…
We had a super Platinum Special Bumper issue this time – which gave the denizens of Carlisle Street an excuse for a week off – so we had to make this crossy last … Read more >>
Our fortnightly delve into the psyche of Psy-ch-lops…
I found this a bit more tricky than usual. This grid design does not lend itself to solving, with hardly any opportunity to get first letters for unsolved lights. (Or maybe I should … Read more >>
There I was, two puzzles ago, suggesting that Cyclops was out of tune with events by bringing up PartyGate and leadership challenges, but all of a sudden, they are news again…I’ll get my coat…
And so to my second favourite feature of Private Eye (I will declare the Eye’s cartoons are always the first thing I consume). Solving was yet another round of making life difficult for … Read more >>