Fifteensquared – Page 1078 – Never knowingly undersolved

Financial Times no.14,664 by Armonie

Thu July 3, 2014 at 9:43 am by Ringo

I enjoyed this puzzle, despite my being in a foul mood. Praise indeed.

Guardian 26,302 / Chifonie

Thu July 3, 2014 at 9:16 am by Eileen

I’ve been chewing my pen, as it were, trying to compose a preamble for this puzzle and have decided to say simply that it’s a fairly typical Chifonie puzzle, I think – but, … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,655 – Dante

Sat July 5, 2014 at 2:38 pmThu July 3, 2014 at 12:05 am by Sil

Monday Prize Crossword/Jun 23 Dante in his familiar style? Well, he left most of his cryptic definitions at home this time! However, to compensate that plenty of double definitions and anagrams. Definitions are … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,654 by Mudd

Tue July 8, 2014 at 2:55 pmThu July 3, 2014 at 12:01 am by Pete Maclean

Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 21, 2014 I found this puzzle to be a good and satisfying challenge. My top clue by far is 4a (MISPRINT) and I also especially … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,663 by Gozo

Thu July 3, 2014 at 7:45 pmWed July 2, 2014 at 9:59 am by PeeDee

I always enjoy getting to solve and blog a Gozo puzzle, I hope you all enjoyed it too. Thanks Gozo.

Independent 8647 / Dac

Wed July 2, 2014 at 6:08 am by Bertandjoyce

We found this a bit tougher than your average Dac, but no less enjoyable – all the usual excellent surfaces were there, but for some reason we had difficulty getting round the misdirections. … Read more >>

Guardian 26,301 by Nutmeg

Wed July 2, 2014 at 7:19 amWed July 2, 2014 at 1:54 am by manehi

I found this tough to get into, but rewarding once I did. Favourites were 1, 7 and 8 down.

Inquisitor 1339: The Man with a Gun by Phi

Wed July 2, 2014 at 12:01 am by kenmac

Preamble: Crossing answers make 18 down appear a non-word – it must be replaced by the acronym given by the longer down answers (five words in total), while retaining real words in the … Read more >>

Guardian 26,300 – Brummie

Tue July 1, 2014 at 10:28 am by Andrew

I made pretty quick work of this: there are quite a few clues that either had giveaway definitions or made their cryptic structure rather too obvious (a common feature of Brummie’s clues). I … Read more >>

Independent 8,646 / Hob

Tue July 8, 2014 at 6:51 pmTue July 1, 2014 at 9:07 am by RatkojaRiku

It’s Tuesday today, with its typical pot pourri of compilers, and today it falls for me to do battle with Hob. I found solving and blogging this puzzle involved quite a lot of … Read more >>

Financial Times 14,662 GAFF

Tue July 1, 2014 at 2:51 am by Bhavan

Looks like my honeymoon period of blogging is over. This was a monumental struggle which had me scrambling all over Chambers and Wikipedia.

Guardian Quiptic 763 / Pan

Mon June 30, 2014 at 10:21 am by Gaufrid

I’m not so sure about the ‘Qui….’ part of this puzzle but maybe that was due to the fact that I had slept longer than usual last night and perhaps my brain was … Read more >>

Independent 8,645 by Commoner

Mon June 30, 2014 at 10:45 amMon June 30, 2014 at 9:59 am by flashling

Still not back to normal for Quixote, but a rare Indy weekday appearance from Commoner.

Guardian 26,299 by Rufus

Mon June 30, 2014 at 8:02 am by flashling

Well it’s Monday, it’s Rufus. You’ve probably got a good idea what’s coming.

Beelzebub 1,268

Sun June 29, 2014 at 9:30 am by Simon Harding

Well I never. Another unaided finish, though admittedly it took until Thursday and there was some very tentative guesswork involved. Not all of which I’ve 1 down-ly checked in Chambers, so it’s quite … Read more >>