Never knowingly undersolved
Thanks Phi for our usual Phi-day phun! The enumeration helped enormously for 1/4/7/13/18. Mind you, whenever we see TAR in a crossword we always think of SAILOR – so that helped … Read more >>
The Thursday slot, home to a wide variety of compilers, is hosting Morph’s latest offering today. I found this puzzle quite a challenge, and after an initial flurry of ten or so clues, … Read more >>
I enjoyed this, and – with one maddening exception – was able to make sense of it without too much trouble.
Found this very difficult, and in the end had to guess-then-Google a couple of unfamiliar words…
Monday Prize Crossword/Aug 4 A familiar Monday solve. Only a couple of the cryptic definitions in the mid-east held me up (but not for too long). 23ac was a new word to me, … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 2, 2014 I made my way quickly through this puzzle. Only 5d gave me a little trouble. My top clues are 1a (SEMI-PRECIOUS), 13a (GLADIOLI) … Read more >>
I had a premonition yesterday evening that it was going to be Monk today so I was glad that I had agreed to stand in for PeeDee again today as he is one … Read more >>
Another Wednesday, another puzzle from Dac I made fairly steady progress solving this. The two most obscure words for me today were FASTBACK (1 across) and BUTTERY (3 down in … Read more >>
An enjoyable puzzle from Crucible that wasn’t too hard once I spotted the theme (even though I didn’t get the linking word at 9d until quite late on). A couple of slightly obscure … Read more >>
Kruger is a prolific Inquisitor setter. The index on this site tells me that he/she already has twenty under his/her belt. The preamble stated "Each clue contains either wordplay yielding … Read more >>
As the laws of probability dictate, it sometimes happens that it falls to me, the most inappropriate person, to blog this sort of crossword. Hob has given us a crossword based on the 20 … Read more >>
… (optional Friday evening and Sunday lunch, 1,2 or 3 nights).
Is this a good date? If so, please confirm below then Jane and I will go ahead and organise it. Half-term for the teachers, and it worked in Sheffield this time last year (some bloke’s birthday). We’ll try and get deals for Fri/Sat, Sat/Sun and Fri/Sat/Sun if all approved.
John H. (aka Nimrod, Enigmatist etc)
Well, not much to say today. Chifonie at possibly his mildest.
Not too taxing a puzzle. I welcome those at the beginning of the week.
Nutmeg returns to the Quiptic with a puzzle to get the old grey cells ticking over once again.