Never knowingly undersolved
Nutmeg rounds off the weekday puzzles in fine form. An enjoyable solve, with some ingenious constructions, clever anagrams and witty surfaces, producing a few ‘aha’ moments. I decided that I had too many … Read more >>
Phi eases us into the weekend with today’s puzzle. I can’t see anything obscure in the entries today. It was a component part of the wordplay for SYMBOL that struck … Read more >>
A nice workout from REDSHANK this Friday. Very enjoyable!
Slightly tricky from Quince today, but fun.
A slow start until I found a way in with a few anagrams. Have been on the lookout for a theme but no luck so far. Favourites 15ac, 25ac, 1dn, and 18dn. Thanks to Brummie for the puzzle.
Medium difficulty Leonidas puzzle this morning.
Opsimath is threatening to drive a HARD BARGAIN with EV solvers this week…
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of June 11, 2022
An enjoyable and slightly unusual puzzle. Thank you Chalmie.
It’s a while since we blogged an Eccles so we were looking forward to this one.
A welcome return by Puck after a gap of just over a year… … and a celebration of PRUNELLA SCALES, who is NINETY today. She is of course famous as SYBIL Fawlty, and … Read more >>
It looks like the regular blogger is unavailable so I’ve hastily put this together.
Apologies for the brevity and apologies in advance for errors.
I found this mostly straightforward, though the two 12-letter down answers held out almost to the end, and I can’t fully explain 6 down: no doubt I’ll soon be enlightened. Thanks to Azed. … Read more >>
Radian has produced this Tuesday’s cruciverbal challenges, and on Tuesdays we always expect to see a theme. No need to go searching for today’s theme: once I had solved a handful of clues, … Read more >>
End of Line by Dysart Two entries are encoded forms of their clued answers, using a separate one-to-one substitution cipher for each (in one a letter maps itself). The change from answer to … Read more >>