Never knowingly undersolved
This Friday morning, as is customary, saw me pitting my wits against Phi’s latest offering. I enjoyed completing this grid, with its four long entries; it is not one that I recall having … Read more >>
When the first two across clues went in straightaway, I thought this might be going to be a doddle. Not so: I found it quite hard going, even after getting the theme early … Read more >>
Satisfying challenge Across 1 Exemplified corruption of tainted saint INSTANTIATED (TAINTED SAINT)* 10 I settled into army training, becoming this MILITARY I LIT (I settled) in (ARMY)* 11 Imposter’s endless … Read more >>
Maybe it was because, unusually for me, I resorted to the Pink ‘un itself rather printing off the online version – or maybe it was because the sun was out – but, in … Read more >>
This was a crossword that did not have complex wordplay, but it was still an enjoyable challenge. The wordplay in majority of the clues followed an additive or double definition route. … Read more >>
Your regular blogger Andrew is away on his holidays and has asked me to stand in for you all. After yesterday’s comments I won’t say how easy I found it 🙂 Actually not … Read more >>
Monday Prize Crossword/Jul 2 First of all, many many thanks to Flashling who was so kind to blog all four of the June Monday Prize Crosswords. It must have been hard to adjust … Read more >>
Prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 30, 2012 I breezed through about half of this puzzle and then got stuck for a good while before finishing it, finding the top-left quadrant … Read more >>
As usual from Dac, an impressive contribution. Several of these clues have an &lit. quality (and quality is the word), so many in fact that while solving one tends to say “I can’t see … Read more >>
This was mostly straighforward but with just a few much harder clues thrown in to the mix. I liked the &lits here, both comple and partial. My favourite, though probably the easiest, was … Read more >>
I would put this at the easier end of the Guardian spectrum; the clue constructions are generally straightforward, with finely crafted surfaces. All in all, just the kind of puzzle that I an happy to see when it is my turn to blog. Thank you, Pasquale.
A fairly painless puzzle this week. The route from 1 to 38 [unclued] may be deduced from the letters that are ignored in the wordplay to 12 clues together with the other unclued … Read more >>
An easy enough puzzle, until I got bogged down with the last one in; there were some unusual and challenging definitions. Thanks Jason. Definitions are underlined in the clues. [[The pictures at the … Read more >>
An interesting themed puzzle today, with the themed items generally forming part of the wordplay rather than the answers themselves. This made it a bit trickier than other themed puzzles where you can … Read more >>
A very enjoyable and mixed bag of goodies which will challenge you and make you grin at times. Most entertaining … … and I like the way some of the clues are cross-referenced … Read more >>