Never knowingly undersolved
I’m suffering weekly bloggers malaise.
That’s where you have bags of time to prepare a blog, and solve the puzzle, take notes, and prepare the main part of the blog but leave the opening words till the last minute. Then on every reminder click “remind me later” till it can’t be ignored. Then realise you have largely forgotten about it all.
Another outing for Brockwell in the prize slot this week.
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 17, 2024
Phi is occupying the usual Friday slot, which wasn’t the case when it last fell to me to blog the Friday puzzle on the opening day of the Olympics. I found this to … Read more >>
Thank you to Paul. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1, 11. Cash (both extremes) described by newspaper articles – like so? (4,2,6) RAGS TO RICHES : 1st and last letters of(… … Read more >>
A breezy challenge from MUDD
Apologies for the formatting below, but the blogging software appears to have a glitch and I was unable to get it working properly, so the definitions are in bold below. Guy exercises our … Read more >>
The only reference I can find for Amoeba as a setter on fifteensquared relate to puzzles supplied by him at the last three Slogggers & Betters get together in York, so I am … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29468.
ASSERTION anagrammatises to ‘arsonites’, ‘notarises’, ‘rosinates’ and ‘senoritas’…which one is Senorita Skylark maybe leading us towards?…
A mixture of simpler and far trickier clues from IO this morning.
Filbert in his usual Wednesday slot.
It’s good to be back after a few days away (my thanks to Shanne for taking over last week) and better still to find a Philistine puzzle to blog. And it’s Philistine on … Read more >>
Thank you to Gozo. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Please excuse the unusual formatting. I’ve had to make do since my usual posting method is not working. Across Rodent, second seen in … Read more >>
Apologies for a slightly hurried blog today. I enjoyed this, and particularly liked 13ac, 24ac, 5dn, and 20dn. Thanks to Qaos