Financial Times 14154 Neo
Another enjoyable puzzle from Tuesday regular, Neo. Quite straightforward, once one gets into it. The N.E. corner was slow, though having cracked it, I don’t know why – apart from trying to find … Read more >>
Never knowingly undersolved
Another enjoyable puzzle from Tuesday regular, Neo. Quite straightforward, once one gets into it. The N.E. corner was slow, though having cracked it, I don’t know why – apart from trying to find … Read more >>
Not quite a smooth solve today as there were a few hard-boiled eggs (obscurities). Just glad that I managed to unravel all for this blog. Phew! Hold cursor over any clue number to … Read more >>
Eileen has once again allowed me to hack into her Fifteensquared account to post final details of the Sloggers and Betters Midlands get-together this coming Saturday, November 10th. We are up to about … Read more >>
Typically gentle and pleasant from Rufus. Favourite clues 16ac and 13dn. Across 1 IMPRECISE =”Approximate” (price semi)* 6 POOL double def. =”People available”; =”a game” 8 INSCRIBE =”Write letters” IN + CRIB=”bed” inside … Read more >>
In case you think I have been hogging the blog recently, I am standing in again today for Peter O, who as a New York resident has been affected by Sandy. He is … Read more >>
Eimi has arisen from the player-manager’s seat in the dug-out, from where he normally barks instructions at his team, and donned his setting shirt to provide us with the Indy puzzle today. As … Read more >>
Sorry for the tardy appearance of this post but I only heard a short while ago that the scheduled blogger is away and has no internet access. Fortunately I had twenty minutes to … Read more >>
Might be wrong about this but seems like Azed has eschewed Scots terms for the duration. Of this puzzle at least. In favour of Latin and Greek. Across 1 BI(O)AS,SAY 7 AM(B)O – … Read more >>
Wow – thank goodness we get a month to do these – I take my hat off to those mentioned in the Grauniad’s dispatches with entries submitted in the early hours of the … Read more >>
Another nicely constructed and accessible puzzle from Everyman. One or two chestnuts, but – in the UK at least – it’s getting to that chestnutty time of year, and in a puzzle aimed … Read more >>
There may have been an involuntary “oh crikey” emitted when I opened the paper to discover I’d drawn a Bannsider to blog. In the event this wasn’t as hard as it might have … Read more >>
A harder than usual prize puzzle this week, I thought. A theme exploiting two meanings of an old chestnut which often crops up in cryptic crosswords. Thanks to Paul for a satisfying challenge. … Read more >>
I noticed last week that the deadline for EV entries moved, with effect from number 1039, from Friday to Thursday. I guess we should be posting our blogs sometime on Friday now, in … Read more >>
An enjoyable challenge Across 1 MAHLER (Gustav – composer) MAILER (Norman) H[ead] for I (Italian) 4 ADVANCED dd 10 JUMP LEADS (help to start car) JUMP (clear) LEADS (clues) 11 … Read more >>
A highly entertaining, characteristically Paul puzzle today, with lots of witty, clever and misleading surfaces and wordplay, so plenty of smiles and ‘aha’ moments to help the solving along. Many thanks, Paul, for … Read more >>