Fifteensquared – Page 1009 – Never knowingly undersolved

Guardian 26,545 by Nutmeg

Tue April 14, 2015 at 10:10 amTue April 14, 2015 at 8:34 am by flashling

A bright sunny morning brings Nutmeg, who can be quite a tricksy setter to unravel.

Independent 8891 / Crosophile

Tue April 14, 2015 at 8:04 am by Bertandjoyce

Crosophile appears once a month but doesn’t have a regular slot in the week, unlike other some other compilers. His last puzzle which we also blogged, seemed to divide opinion but we don’t … Read more >>

Financial Times 14904 Neo

Tue April 14, 2015 at 11:00 amTue April 14, 2015 at 4:52 am by scchua

(Work in progress: Please click here for this same blog but with a picture quiz added. Please do NOT post hereinbelow any comment relating to the picture quiz. Thank you.) A Neo on … Read more >>

Financial Times 14904 with Picture Quiz

Tue April 14, 2015 at 11:01 amTue April 14, 2015 at 3:58 am by scchua

(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A Neo on the lenient side. Thanks to Neo. Definitions are underlined in the … Read more >>

Guardian 26,544 by Rufus

Tue April 14, 2015 at 12:24 amMon April 13, 2015 at 12:26 pm by PeterO

My apologies for the late arrival of this blog. The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26544

Guardian Quiptic 804/Hectence

Mon April 13, 2015 at 9:24 am by Pierre

I’m usually a big fan of her Quiptics, but Hectence has given us an over-complicated one here, I fancy. The grid didn’t help. Anyway, over to you. Abbreviations cd cryptic … Read more >>

Independent 8890 by Monk

Mon April 13, 2015 at 9:00 am by NealH

*=anagram [] = removed e.g. char[m]=char ()=abbreviation e.g. A(mpere)=a Hom. = homophone I finished most of this quite quickly but then took a while winkling out the last few clues such as 14 … Read more >>

Cyclops 544: Who is Silvio?

Wed April 15, 2015 at 8:06 amMon April 13, 2015 at 12:01 am by jetdoc

A very straightforward Cyclops for me — an easy solve, with no clue holding me up for long. I’ve been writing the blog on a grey, damp, cold and gloomy Sunday afternoon, while … Read more >>

Independent on Sunday 1,311 by Poins

Sun April 12, 2015 at 9:30 am by Simon Harding

The usual high quality, enjoyable puzzle from Poins, if perhaps a little tougher than some, at least for me. The crossing 11 down and 16 across were last in: not being in any … Read more >>

Everyman 3,574

Sun April 12, 2015 at 11:43 amSun April 12, 2015 at 6:36 am by flashling

It’s Sunday and my shift at the Everyman wheel.

Beelzebub 1309

Sun April 12, 2015 at 1:00 am by Gaufrid

I thought I was going to be in for another early finish when the NW, followed by the SW, quadrants went in quite quickly but then the NE took a little longer and … Read more >>

Azed 2235

Sun April 12, 2015 at 12:01 am by duncanshiell

Given that this puzzle was published on Easter Sunday I was expecting an Azed special, so I was slightly surprised to see just a plain Competition puzzle. There was the … Read more >>

Independent 8883 by Tees (Saturday Prize Puzzle 4 April 2015)

Sun April 12, 2015 at 9:22 pmSat April 11, 2015 at 12:01 am by mc_rapper67

An interesting mental tussle with Tees – with a variety of cultural references, from a South African golfer to Dante, via the slopes of K2 and a couple of secret police forces…hopefully not giving … Read more >>

Enigmatic Variations No.1167 – Warning by Samuel

Sun April 12, 2015 at 11:15 pmSat April 11, 2015 at 12:00 am by Mister Sting

A somewhat unusual set-up: across clues are given in pairs, and the method of entry for four across rows is thematic (whatever that might turn out to mean), with no definition given. Another row is unclued, and must be filled with ‘the reason for the WARNING’. The down clues, meanwhile, are not idle – extra letters from their solutions give ‘the subject of the WARNING’.