Never knowingly undersolved
Solving Time: 14 minutes Fairly straightforward fare with a couple of nice off-the-wall clues. Bit baffled by 24 down. ACROSS * = Anagram (r) = Reversal (CD) = Cryptic definition 1 MEMBER (RE)MEMBER 5 … Read more >>
Across 1 LOTHARIO – T + HARI in LOO 10 COMIC – COSMIC minus S (close to tears) 11 SEA URCHIN – SEA(U)RCH + IN 16 DONKEY – DON + KEY 26 ENNUI … Read more >>
Quite a few cryptic definitions again this week – some are good, some less so. But that judgment all depends on your mood I suppose. When I don’t like a CD, I suspect … Read more >>
Across 1 BY (“buy”) CHOICE – “on the phone” is your homophone indicator. 12 NO MAN IS AN ISLAND – I think I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve seen this … Read more >>
Solving time 48 mins, no Chambers until grid complete, 2 mistakes (32,33) Don Manley said in a recent comment how glad he was to see Azed returning to this blog, and mentioned the … Read more >>
Please excuse the late posting; I was not near a PC earlier in the day. This proved to be just the right flavour of puzzle for my footloose Friday, not overly challenging or … Read more >>
Solving time: 30 minutes, but needed to look up 17ac, made a mistake (4dn) and can’t fathom 18ac. I found this pretty difficult, and took a long time to work out what ‘5ac … Read more >>
I’ve updated the setters page today with details about the FT setters.
Solving Time: 19 minutes Another reliable enjoyable puzzle from Phi. Nothing too taxing today, although 4 across held me up for a little while. Not too many anagrams today, either. ACROSS * = ANAGRAM … Read more >>
The first thing you noticed about this puzzle was that some of the clues were prefixed and suffixed with “(see [another clue number])…” – one clue referred to another and that one to … Read more >>
There aren’t many things more satisfying than that moment when solvers of the Inquisitor or The Listener experience when the device the setter has used to complicate the puzzle reveals itself. A light-bulb … Read more >>
I think the theme might be music since 26 clues out of 26 are related to music. Typical fine Brendanian surfaces: sensible and consistent. In order to understand themes, PeterB always recommends taking … Read more >>
No two ways about it, Scorpion’s tricky. Thursday is also the day of the week I have least time for solving and blogging so apologies that this is a little late. I cracked … Read more >>
Across 1. OTT,A(W)A 9. PRO FIT 12. PLAYGOER 13. STANCE – A golf ref. 16. SCARECROWS (soccer wars)* 19. SPRING ROLL 20. FETA – fate* 23. MEADOW (a mowed)* 25. RE(LAPSE)D 27. TIDEMARK … Read more >>
(Finally showed up on the FT site — couldn’t find paper copy). In his FT persona, Araucaria is hardly less… um… what’s the word? Challenging? Anyway, the usual breathtaking surfaces (one or two … Read more >>