Never knowingly undersolved
Ah, it’s one of those puzzles: Answers – each of 7 letters – start or end in the correspondingly numbered cell and must be entered either clockwise or anticlockwise, connecting to the central … Read more >>
Took a while to solve, and longer to parse. Favourites 11ac, 24ac, and especially 17ac. Thanks to Pangakupu for the puzzle
It’s Tuesday and it’s a puzzle with Crosophile as the setter. Tuesday is theme day and Crosophile often includes a theme even when his puzzles don’t appear on a Tuesday. … Read more >>
The four long perimeter clues made this a slow solve for me on this challenge from Buccaneer . . .
I struggled with this plain Azed.
A Monday MOO…
Monday and Italicus gets us off and running, I still think of the setter as one of the Indy’s new crop but I see the first was 2018.
I can’t say my heart flutters with joy when I see Anto’s name on a Quiptic puzzle. What matters more, perhaps, is what the intended audience thought of this one. Abbreviations cd cryptic … Read more >>
Jack, aka Serpent of the Independent and Basilisk of the FT, has set a few Genius puzzles, but I think this is his first appearance in the Cryptic slot. Very welcome too, as … Read more >>
Easter Sunday and the Everyman to solve (in the pub)
Hoskins has the Sunday Independent puzzle for us this weekend. Abbreviations cd cryptic definition dd double definition cad clue as definition (xxxx)* anagram anagrind = anagram indicator [x] letter(s) removed definitions are underlined … Read more >>
No complaints today – we have a Serpent to solve and blog.
The other FT Weekend puzzle for Saturday 8th April
A bumper selection of cryptic clues for the Easter weekend.
A significant milestone for Cyclops, if the numerologists are to be believed, with puzzle number 750…three quarters of a millennium…
Weekend puzzle from the FT of April 8, 2023