Never knowingly undersolved
I think this is Tack’s second Independent crossword after a Sunday puzzle in May this year. After the gentle music of Ronald Binge yesterday, we have a completely different genre … Read more >>
After ‘Death on the Nile‘ two weeks ago, we have moved up to Luxor…
Fun and tricky in parts – my favourites were 13ac, 17ac, 23ac, 8dn, and 10dn. Thanks to Pasquale
Kairos usually appears in the Independent a few times a year (often on Sundays), but this is the first time I’ve met him in my blog slot.
Thanks to IO for the fun this morning.
Snakes alive! Preamble: Two intimately connected names, each of three words, appear in the grid and partially overlap, resulting in clashes in a number of cells. The non-clashing letters in the names … Read more >>
Phi on a Tuesday!!? What is the world coming to?
I’m feeling well and truly impaled by this morning’s puzzle, with lots of tricky (though of course ingenious) clues. There are a couple that I haven’t been able to parse, and I don’t … Read more >>
PETO kicks off the week…
Crosophile returns for the first time since January
Anto is the Monday setter this week.
**UPDATE**
RIP – Andy Stewart Andy Stewart, who set as Dysart has passed away. He produced 18 Listener crosswords and 14 Inquistor crosswords and appeared in the Enigmatic Variations, the Magpie and the Crossword … Read more >>
A Quiptic from Hectence that took me a while to get into, but which fell out nicely in the end. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram … Read more >>
Nice sound crossword with quite a few double definitions here, I thought — not perhaps too many, though. They are usually easy for the solver because it’s generally pretty obvious what has to be done, and they are often easy for the setter since one only has to find some appropriate synonyms.
Definitions underlined, in crimson. Indicators (homophone, hidden, juxtaposition, etc.) in italics. Anagrams indicated (like this)* or *(like this). Link-words in green.