Never knowingly undersolved
We have a standard puzzle from Azed, no competition clues and no quirky cluing devices. That said, I reckoned there were more new words for me than in the majority … Read more >>
My first blogging of a Methuselah puzzle but looking at the archives he may not be as old as Methuselah but he has already produced a fair output. A medium level of difficulty … Read more >>
This is the twelfth 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.
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 15, 2024
Brockwell has become a fairly regular Grauniad setter, with eight puzzles since his debut last April…and most (all?) of them have contained a theme of some sort…
It’s Friday so we have a puzzle set by Phi which is the usual case for a Friday I wondered if there was some theme based on SYMMETRIC (5d) or … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/29415.
A trademark delight from JULIUS today.
I was quite surprised to see that it’s five months since I blogged a Paul puzzle. (Please read through to the end of this preamble!) From time to time, I comment that a … Read more >>
Our Thursday challenge is provided by Filbert today.
Guy is the FT setter today.
“Two down entries are on the BORDERLINE and clued without definition. Three other contiguous border entries are appropriate to their location. Wordplay in all other clues indicates the answer with an extra letter that is not entered in the grid; these spell out an instruction affecting 32 cells. Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended; 37a is in the Oxford Dictionary of English.”
A fun, slower, solve – my favourites were 12ac, 19ac, 20ac, 3dn, 7/23, and 14dn. Thanks to Pangakupu
Thanks to Monk for this morning’s challenge.
Things are back to normal – we have Eccles on a Wednesday.