Never knowingly undersolved
A sunny morning made sunnier on seeing Qaos’ name on the puzzle I was down to blog. Lots of fun to be had here, with several penny-dropping moments and lots of Qaos’ customary … Read more >>
Thanks to Gaufrid for the opportunity to blog this puzzle. I was apprehensive about what I was going to get for my first post, but GURNEY ensured that there would be no problems. This was a fun outing with a variety of clue types thrown in.
This week’s Quiptic is by Orlando, one of my favourite setters.
Straightforward Monday fun from Chifonie. Favourites were 24ac and 27ac
Always a pleasure to come across a Punk puzzle when I’m on duty. Some straightforward stuff to get you going, but I really struggled to get over the line. Only one bum and … Read more >>
My apologies for the late post. I won’t comment on this one as I cheated to get the blog out quickly.
A very enjoyable puzzle, and I was pleased to finish this one unaided, which isn’t something I manage often. There does seem to be some correlation between taking Beelzebub to the pub and … Read more >>
A pleasing puzzle from Everyman, but one I struggled with a bit, especially in the SE corner, where there was a word I had never heard of. Abbreviations cd cryptic … Read more >>
Other than a numbering malfunction in the online edition once it had finally become available after a couple of days (across clue numbers from 29 needed to be incremented which I spent far … Read more >>
A themed puzzle from Pasquale to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of the person referred to in the preamble.
The preamble to ‘HARD GRAFT’ tells us that a ‘6A by 11D’ (both unclued) will appear in the grid (five words) and explain said ‘graft’. In addition, each clue’s wordplay will lead to … Read more >>
Quixote gave us a bit of run around with this one. A run around of just over 12 furlongs. I hadn’t got any idea what DW might refer to – the first thing … Read more >>
Phi is occupying his customary end-of-week slot today, Friday the Thirteenth – unlucky for some, perhaps? Well, not for me, as it turned out, at least not cruciverbally!. I thoroughly enjoyed this one, … Read more >>
Magwitch gives us a nice entertaining puzzle, peppered with amicable clues mostly and the customary couple of mindbenders that prevents the grid from being a walk in the park. Thanks Magwitch, for a fitting end to what has been generally been a good week for FT solvers. I am sure a couple of parsings could be improved so look forward to inputs from folks out there.
Enjoyable, but tough to get into…