Never knowingly undersolved
Many apologies for the lateness. I was due to post this last Tuesday but the crossword gods saw things a little differently. The blog appears below and the puzzle can be found … Read more >>
Phi is a prolific setter of Inquisitor and Independent crosswords and I believe he is now setting for the Guardian and the Guardian Genius as Pangakupu. There was a reasonably … Read more >>
Tuesday entertainment from Laccaria.
Good fun as always from Tramp, with the long answers around the edges characteristically clued, and a couple of them needing close attention to get the details worked out. Thanks to Tramp (and … Read more >>
I cannot access the blogging utility that I normally use, so as a stopgap, I am posting these parsing notes, which I hope will be reasonably clear to anyone who has attempted the puzzle.
Better late than never (apparently)! Now the site is back from the dead I can finally post this.
Today’s Saturday’s puzzle is was set by Filbert.
WE’RE BACK! On Tuesday 27th June I awoke to several messages regarding access errors to Fifteensquared. I posted the “Site access problems” post and, of course, that generated varying replies. This left me … Read more >>
GUY kicks off the start of Wimbledon…
The ever-reliable Hectence provides our entertainment today.
With all the problems over the weekend, I’ve had to build the HTML for this entirely by hand. Therefore it’s unlikely there aren’t a few places where the clue text is wrong or has the wrong enumeration.
This was a mostly gentle puzzle, although I did struggle to work out the parsing of a couple.
Typical Monday fare from Vulcan.
A fun challenge from ZAMORCA. Apologies for the late blog as I faced some technical issues.
The FT’s geographically themed puzzle returns, this time set for us by Peto. Find it on the FT website to print or solve interactively, or use the FT’s smartphone app.
I found this a bit of a slow solve, perhaps because of a higher-than-usual proportion of unfamiliar words. Fortunately I managed to get there in the end. of Thanks to Azed. Across … Read more >>
After the excitement last week of the publication of the themed 4000th puzzle, it’s back to normal this week for Everyman, with the usual trademark inclusions. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition … Read more >>