Never knowingly undersolved
Filbert has produced this Tuesday’s offering for our entertainment. I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, especially the ingenious ways in which the entries at 5,8 and 14 were combined in various clues. I think … Read more >>
Sixty Happy Years by Nimrod In an Only Connect Wall, 16 arbitrarily arranged words, phrases or names must be sorted into four groups of four, each with a different thematic link. Representing such … Read more >>
It’s unusual to see Paul on a Tuesday but I’m not complaining – I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, with a favourite earworm to accompany the solve and blog and to set me up … Read more >>
Half of this fairly flew in . . .
BOBCAT provides this morning's challenge…
I found this a slightly mixed bag, with a lot of nice clues but one or two where I struggled to justify the parsing. The breadth of Tees's vocabulary is, as ever, impressive.
Thank you to Hectence. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 7. Dietary supplement‘s almost essential minimum with beginner to cooking (7,1) VITAMIN C : “vital”(essential/absolutely necessary) minus its last letter(almost …) + … Read more >>
A fun solve with many neat surfaces – my favourites clues were 18ac, 22ac, 27ac, 28ac, and 5dn. Thanks to Vulcan
The puzzle is available here.
The monthly globetrotting puzzle, available on the FT website to download and print or solve online, or via the smartphone app.
After the now-traditional ‘dance of the seven veils’ with a new Genius puzzle, or in this case, the ‘dance of the six missing clues’, all was eventually revealed when the correct version of the puzzle was posted after a couple of days…
Quite an easy one on the Azed scale, helped by no fewer than four hidden answers. Thanks to Azed. Across 1 UPCATCH Cup brewed, chat freely to exchange latest news? (7)CUP* + … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/4019.
The puzzle is available here.
This was something of a departure from my usual routine when solving and blogging a Prize puzzle. As you will know, last weekend was the annual York S and B, this year celebrating … Read more >>