Never knowingly undersolved
This was rather harder than usual for Vulcan, I thought, and I can’t fully parse 6d. No doubt help soon will be at hand. Thanks to Vulcan. Across 1 THAMES One can … Read more >>
A typically entertaining puzzle from a long-time favourite in this slot.
The puzzle is available here.
Now that the Observer has amended/clarified the rules for submitting Azed solutions we’re going back to publishing the blogs on the Sunday after the puzzle appears. After my first pass through the clues … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3995.
Serpent provides today’s challenge.
Weekend puzzle from the FT of May13, 2023
I was surprised to see Paul in the Prize spot for the second week running – but we had had Picaroon and Philistine on the previous two days and so I perhaps should … Read more >>
Another Phiday puzzle for our amusement.
As is ever the case with Vlad, a tricky one today, not helped by the unfriendly grid, and more so by my initially entering two plausible but incorrect answers. Slightly bruised thanks to … Read more >>
A fun challenge from BUCCANEER to end the work week.
Three asterisked clues need encoding by a Playfair square before entry and three unclued need to be entered likewise. Needless to say the Playfair needs to be derived. Some very straight forward clues … Read more >>
Lap up this puzzle from Guy!
Wire fills the Thursday spot this week
The scheduled blogger, scchua is on holiday, so I’m standing in today for this offering from Imogen. I got off to a slow start and didn’t get anything until the … Read more >>