Never knowingly undersolved
A pleasant Everyman, of around medium difficulty in my opinion, except for the odd clue where we are treated to the sort of thing Everyman meets when doing The Listener crossword. All the usual trademarks, which are coloured (in random colours, simply those I thought were prettiest) in the grid.
Definitions underlined in crimson. Indicators (anagram, hidden, homophone, insertion, reversal etc) in italics. Anagrams indicated *(like this) or (like this)*. Link-words in green.
Spring has arrived and a crossword from Tack fills the Saturday slot. And some lovely surfaces hiding some quite complex wordplay. Highly enjoyable and challenging. 11ac – very original assuming I’ve parsed as … Read more >>
Posted on behalf of Simon Shepherd I’m organising an informal S&B gathering at the Parcel Yard, King’s Cross on Saturday April 5, starting around midday until the last person goes home. It’s partly … Read more >>
This week’s 11 x 11 crossword from the Guardian, intended to teach cryptic crosswords, found here
After last week’s teasing “nearly” eight hundred tucked away in the perimeter unches, Cyclops makes no bones about it and we find EIGHT HUNDRED CYCLOPS CROSS WORDS in clear among the across answers.
I’m sure Lady Bracknell would have something to say about the coincidence of getting two Enigmatist Prize puzzles to blog in a row…maybe in that lesser-known book by Oscar Wilde – ‘The Importance of Blogging Enigmatist‘…
Now there’s an unusual title – and a pretty scary looking puzzle. I wonder what Hawk has prepared for us this time?
Oh dear! This week we had a Hawk puzzle, his fourth Listener. Last time (no 4782, Life 2) involved cutting up the grid into two different sizes and gluing them together to identify … Read more >>
Friday, Phi, Independent crossword puzzle – they all go together.
A tougher-than-usual challenge from NEO this Friday.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29654.
Always happy to have an Eccles puzzle to solve and blog.
Anto appears to be working overtime: it’s only ten days since his previous cryptic puzzle and four since the weekend Quiptic.
An excellent puzzle from Jason.
“Each clue contains a single letter to be removed before solving; in clue order, these spell out what solvers should highlight in the completed grid, involving perhaps GOOD ADVICE? Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”