Never knowingly undersolved
Every Friday we have the same thing, a very satisfactory and pleasant crossword from Phi, with few if any points of controversy. Initially, when I saw the answer ‘raindrop’ I thought Phi was balancing out all those rock music Ninas we so often have, by having nicknames of pieces of music, possibly just by Chopin, but either he is, and I am ignorant, or this was a false lead.
As usual with Phi for some reason, I was slow to start but then made steady 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 nice puzzle, quite straightforward I … Read more >>
(Please post comments on ONLY the picture quiz hereinbelow. To post comments on the crossword puzzle, please click here.) A nice puzzle, quite straightforward I thought. Thanks to Chifonie. Definitions are underlined in … Read more >>
This is only the third Knut puzzle in the Indy and as it was Thursday, we expected a challenge. There was some very clever and inventive clueing but also a few others that … Read more >>
We had a couple of quibbles (which we shall probably find are down to us missing the point rather than any deficiency in the crossword) but overall we enjoyed this.
The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26535.
Monday Prize Crossword / Mar 23, 2015
On the whole a Dante puzzle as we expect it to be. Easy, especially the right hand side, but pleasant.
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 21, 2015 I found the bottom right quadrant of this puzzle rather hard and was also challenged by two terms I did not know, 11 … Read more >>
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This is a tricky puzzle that I can’t quite finish. I think Io has made a fool out me again!
Today brings the start of a new month and my monthly encounter with Dac. Although Wednesday is typically Dac day, I did a double take when I saw that he had chosen this … Read more >>
In view of the date, I was prepared for perhaps a Qaotic or Puckish puzzle but instead found a potentially daunting ‘new’ setter – Atë. She [sic] is, of course, the goddess of … Read more >>
An alphabetical jigsaw this week from Charybdis, and a very good one too! An amazing grid construction. The rubric read: Answers fit in the grid jigsaw-wise. Unnumbered clues are arranged in alphabetical order of … Read more >>
My apologies for the late appearance of this post, I don’t know what has prevented the scheduled blogger from turning up. To avoid further delay, I will confine my input to a simple … Read more >>
I enjoyed this puzzle by Scorpion. It made me think outside the box a bit. The vocabulary in the grid wasn’t too obscure. Some may disagree about UBUNTU (23 across). … Read more >>