Never knowingly undersolved
A fairly straightforward puzzle this morning, with the four multi-light downs providing lots of helpful crossing letters. Thanks to Pangakupu. Pangakupu puzzles usually have a Maori word or phrase hidden in the grid, … Read more >>
Every second Wednesday, Eccles comes along with an Independent cryptic puzzle to challenge us. There was good mix of vocabulary in today’s puzzle. I had LAMPOONING in at 9 across … Read more >>
eXternal is a prolific setter of Inquisitor puzzles with interesting themes and cluing devices. Today, the preamble told us that a letter must be reinstated in each of 36 clues. The … Read more >>
Vigo provides our Tuesday entertainment this week.
Qaos is the setter of the Guardian puzzle this morning.
Solomon is a recent addition to the FT stable, and is definitely a setter with his own style, as demonstrated by a number of today’s clues. By no means an easy solve.
SLORMGORM kicks off the week…
Filbert on two consecutive days in the daily Independent. Not illegal, but certainly uncommon. A fine puzzle, which I enjoyed teasing out and finally completing. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29447.
It’s been an eventful month. Here it Is in crossword form – find it to solve online at ft.com/crossword
Lovely Quiptic from Pasquale, who produces a range of puzzles at different levels. The crossword can be found here
Apart from a couple of quibbles noted below, I found this pretty straightforward.
Nothing really to frighten the horses with here, which is as it should be. One or two where it took me a while to see where Everyman was coming from, but I think … Read more >>
Thank you to Tees. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Groovy district in an English county? (7) RUTLAND : RUT-LAND(how you might describe a district/a region that has ruts/grooves in it). … Read more >>
The Olympics begin and Filbert supplies us with a non-Olympian sport – well for now anyway. Not sure how crossword solving would ever enter the Olympics but you never know. Great clues from … Read more >>