Fifteensquared – Page 1121 – Never knowingly undersolved

Financial Times 14,526 by IO

Wed January 22, 2014 at 12:52 pmWed January 22, 2014 at 11:27 am by PeeDee

Spectacular, a real treat! Difficult, but just about do-able in one sitting by mere mortals.

Independent 8,509 by Dac

Wed January 22, 2014 at 10:31 pmWed January 22, 2014 at 11:19 am by John

What more can we say? Actually, although this contains many of Dac’s trademark felicities, there are a couple of clues that struck me as just a little below the standard we have come … Read more >>

Guardian 26,163 by Paul

Wed January 22, 2014 at 12:42 pmWed January 22, 2014 at 10:01 am by flashling

Many thanks to Pierre and Writinghawk for doing my blogs last week after my eye operation. I can’t get new glasses yet so this was a bit of a struggle to see and … Read more >>

Inquisitor 1316: Swingers by Lato

Wed January 22, 2014 at 12:01 am by HolyGhost

A long preamble, paraphrased: Two unclued entries describe how 11 thematic answers have to be changed before entry. (In one case there’s a double change, and answer & entry lead to an anagram … Read more >>

Financial Times 14525 Neo

Tue January 21, 2014 at 11:01 am by scchua

An enjoyable puzzle as always from Neo, to whom thanks. The min-theme is referenced in 12across, but there may be other (hidden) themes that I can’t spot (there is some poetry, some zoology … Read more >>

Independent 8508 / Kairos

Tue January 21, 2014 at 7:57 am by Bertandjoyce

We were pretty sure that we had not blogged Kairos before. On checking. we found there have been 10 other puzzles from him in the Indy but 9 of them were in the … Read more >>

Guardian Cryptic N° 26,162 by Brendan

Tue January 21, 2014 at 4:06 am by PeterO

The puzzle may be found at http://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/26162.

Independent 8507/Morph

Mon January 20, 2014 at 8:56 pmMon January 20, 2014 at 4:06 pm by Pierre

When you see Morph’s name on a puzzle, you know you’re going to have a few smiles when solving it. No exception here: bit of cricket, bit of politics, bit of current affairs, … Read more >>

Guardian 26,161 / Rufus

Mon January 20, 2014 at 11:54 amMon January 20, 2014 at 9:50 am by Eileen

. Thank you, Rufus, for another typically genial introduction to the week Across 1 To fall back, a mistake made by soldiers (7) RELAPSE RE [soldiers] + LAPSE [mistake] 5 Sea mist represented … Read more >>

Guardian Quiptic 740/Hectence

Mon January 20, 2014 at 2:13 am by Pierre

I never really time myself when I’m doing a puzzle, but this Quiptic seemed to take a long time to nail down, which might mean it was trickier than it should have been. … Read more >>

Cyclops 512: Don’t mention M*****h!

Mon January 20, 2014 at 12:01 am by jetdoc

A pretty quick solve for me; though I admit that I got a bit stuck on 20a — not because it’s difficult, but because I didn’t expect it to be so simple and … Read more >>

Independent on Sunday 1,247 by eXternal

Sun January 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm by Simon Harding

I think I may only once have blogged an eXternal puzzle, and goodness me, this one seemed very hard at first. The grid initially filled up very slowly, and from the bottom upwards. … Read more >>

Beelzebub 1,245

Mon January 20, 2014 at 11:14 pmSun January 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm by Simon Harding

This was a strangely similar solving experience to last week, where I thought I’d finished without resorting to aids, only to find I’d stuffed one up. At 19 down I hadn’t been able … Read more >>

AZED No. 2,171 Plain

Sun January 19, 2014 at 10:26 amSun January 19, 2014 at 4:30 am by The Trafites

Nick: Some unusually unusual words this week from Azed, with several I did not know of – however a lot of these are clued rather easily with clear word play. I had to use … Read more >>

Everyman No. 3510 (12th January)

Sun January 19, 2014 at 4:15 am by The Trafites

Lorraine: Good morning happy solvers. It is good to be back. Fairly straight forward this week, in fact I enjoyed the solve very much. My favourite this week was 18ac, very good clue in … Read more >>