Never knowingly undersolved
My first blog of a Brockwell puzzle: this is only his third appearance and the first two were in the Prize slot. The previous puzzles were heavily themed: the first celebrated the fiftieth … Read more >>
Atrica provides us with today’s challenge.
BRADMAN kicks off the week… Apologies for the lateness of this, and the formatting being a bit off, and for a lack of grid image – had some issues with the blogging tool … Read more >>
I found this to be a very enjoyable and inventive puzzle which was on the more difficult side.
Many delightful surface readings in this morning’s Quiptic from Bartland, with only the slightly solver-unfriendly grid ratcheting up the difficulty level. I enjoyed this one. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad … Read more >>
A few extra tricks compared to most Mondays – my favourites were 8ac, 9ac, 12ac/14ac, 1dn, 3dn, and 7dn. Thanks to Philistine
I believe that the New Statesman’s Margaret Irvine tribute crossword by Anorak will appear this coming Friday (28th). There will be a full tribute to Margaret in July edition of 1 Across magazine: … Read more >>
The first blog in the Fifteensquared database was published on 1st November 2006 when neildubya blogged Guardian 23910, followed the next day by nmsindy explaining Independent 6254.
Shabbo returns for the first time since December last year and first time for me to blog.
Everyman has done all the right things here so far as I can see. Nice surfaces, sound clues, and all within the restrictions of the rhyming pair, the self-referential clue and the first letters clue. When history is written I suspect this Everyman will bear comparison with some of the greats of the past.
Definitions underlined, in crimson. Indicators (hidden, anagram, homophone, reversal etc.) in italics. Anagrams indicated like (this)* or *(this). Link-words in green.
A mid-month puzzle from Azed is usually a plain puzzle, as this one is. I got off to a good start, possibly because there were quite a few ‘everyday’ entries, but … Read more >>
The puzzle is available here.
I had trouble trying to choose a title for this blog. There are so many adjectives in the answers compared to the number of nouns, and many of those adjectives lend themselves to … Read more >>
A first appearance from Arachne in quite a while, and a poignant preamble: ‘In memory of 5 (25 10), 1948-2023‘.
Puzzle from the Weekend FT of July 15, 2023