Never knowingly undersolved
For those of you who missed last Saturday night’s Annual Listener Awards in Southport, here are the winners: Ascot Gold Cup for the best puzzle: By George! by Enigmatist (John Henderson). Solver Silver Salver for the longest all-correct run … Read more >>
A celebration of a famous entry – an area to be found – a quotation from extra letters in across clues leading to an answer to be found. The surname of the entrant … Read more >>
Tees fills the Thursday spot this week.
Gurney is today’s compiler.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29647.
Eccles has provided our mid-week cruciverbal teaser this Wednesday, using a grid that contains no really long entries and so plenty of short- and medium-length entries for us all to tease out. I … Read more >>
It’s Brummie occupying the midweek slot again, with a reasonably straightforward puzzle. My apologies for a rather rudimentary blog, any errors or omissions and my possible inability to revisit later, owing to family … Read more >>
A lovely themed crossword from Gaff.
Recent communications on this site that many people are concerned that Gravatar is, for want of a better phrase, stealing their identities. In case you missed it then take a look at this thread: https://www.fifteensquared.net/2025/03/15/to-av-or-to-av-not/.
eXternal sets the second IQ challenge of March.
A fun solve with a variety of general knowledge references. Favourites were 1ac, 11ac, 17ac, 25ac, and 5dn. Thanks to Yank
Crosophile challenges us in the Independent series today
I struggled to get a toehold at first, but this turned out to be a solid outing with Gozo, with some rather inventive clues.
Straightforward Monday fare, but there are (for my taste) rather too many examples of the definition not grammatically matching the answer. Thanks to Anto for the puzzle. Across 1 HAIL MARY Fellow, … Read more >>
A reasonably gentle start to the week from Bard, which I enjoyed. There’s one slightly clunky clue (for this solver at least) and it’s a pangram. Otherwise not much more to add before … Read more >>