Never knowingly undersolved
Again a lovely sound crossword from Azed. I won’t waste time by copying out Chambers but as usual will confine myself to trying to explain how the clues work, something that wasn’t always … Read more >>
A comparatively new setter in Fifteensquared’s coverage, and, as far as I can tell, his/her first in the IoS. Straightforward solve. Thanks to Alchemi. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the bottom have unidentified links with the puzzle.]]
Monk always puts us through our paces, and this week’s puzzle was no exception. I spent most of the week on this one, and in fact didn’t quite manage to finish it off … Read more >>
An excellent puzzle: cleverly constructed and with about the right level of difficulty for a Saturday, we thought. The rubric for this puzzle read “Across solutions are 11, when it comes to the … Read more >>
An extra letter in each of the subsidiary indications – straight forward enough but then the answers must be jumbled except for the first and last three rows and first and last 2 … Read more >>
Due to the transfer to a new hosting company, please don’t add a comment later than 8pm on Sunday. There will then be some down time, after about 9pm, followed by a period of around … Read more >>
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Straightforward and well defined Across 1 GRANDMASTER (top chess player) grand (magnificent) master (teacher) 7 ORB (round object) hidden in [convey]OR B[elt] 9 METRO (subway) T (time) in (ROME)* … Read more >>
Another Phi-day to end the week! First of all though – Many thanks to PeeDee and Eileen who stood in for us while we were on holiday! We thought there may be a … Read more >>
As long as you know the references, I think this is at the easier end of Araucaria’s output.
Initally posted at 16:45 this blog started out as a very quick and basic one as Gaufrid has asked me to help in the apparent absence of the scheduled blogger. Now that I’ve got … Read more >>
I won’t say too much about this morning’s offering from Redshank, because a combination of software, hardware and newsagent failings have already made me very late. So I’ll only say that I thought … Read more >>
‘Mixed bag’ is a term that has been applied more than once to Gordius puzzles, by me and others – and here’s another: some good clues but, as so often, I have quibbles … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Nov 26 Mostly straightforward, but as always with a Dante puzzle there were these final bits that held me up. I think the end-product is right, but I need some help … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of November 24, 2012 The last Falcon I blogged was a considerably difficult puzzle. This one I found very easy and I know that some others did … Read more >>