Never knowingly undersolved
Atrica is filling the Tuesday slot this week, with a puzzle that must have taken a lot of time and effort to compile. I found this highly enjoyable to solve, but quite tricky … Read more >>
Today’s Guardian Cryptic comes from Paul, and I’m covering again, this time for Eileen, as she’s away, trying my hand at blogging a proper Cryptic, not the Quiptic and Quick Cryptic Crosswords I’ve been blogging until now. This crossword can be found here.
I had several false starts on this puzzle from Slormgorm, but having completed it now, I cannot pinpoint any reason for my difficulty.
ARTEXLEN kicks off the week…
A nice puzzle – I particularly liked 11ac, 25ac, and 18dn. Thanks to Vulcan
This puzzle is available to solve online or download here.
I’m standing in for the usual blogger as it’s summer holiday time, so had the joy of blogging a Picaroon Quiptic, as an additional Quiptic blog this month. The crossword can be found here.
A plain puzzle for this month’s competition.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4059.
This puzzle is available to solve online or download here.
This is the nineteenth Guardian Quick Cryptic, a series of 11 x 11 crosswords designed to support beginners learning cryptic crosswords. The whole point of these crosswords is support and encouragement of new solvers, so special rules for these crosswords apply – see here. The puzzle can be found here.
I was thinking that it had been a long time since we had had a Paul puzzle and so I was not really surprised to see him turn up in the Prize slot. … Read more >>
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of August 3, 2024
This fortnight’s title alludes to the, maybe apocryphal, story/video doing the e-rounds of a pole-vaulter who successfully negotiated the bar on his way up but then dislodged it on the way down with his…