Never knowingly undersolved
Hectence is a long-standing setter of the Quiptic and has produced a pleasing puzzle this morning which was solvable with a bit of pencil-chewing. Degree of difficulty is such a moveable feast when … Read more >>
Twin’s second appearance here in the Indy
Everyman doing what Everyman does with our Sunday offering
Hoskins has the Sunday Indy offering 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 >>
I’m not sure why, but when I first looked at this puzzle, and saw the various clues with …,1,1,1,… enumeration I immediately assumed it was going to have a sporty theme with answers … Read more >>
I thought this was a witty and very enjoyable puzzle from Picaroon. Many thanks to the setter! Across 1. After palaver, bets a rogue is to avoid dismissal (5,4,3) CARRY ONE’S BAT CARRY … Read more >>
Weekend puzzle from the FT of January 14, 2023
A really tough one from BUCCANEER this Friday.
Pasquale rounds off the week with an interesting and enjoyable puzzle. There are two excellent long anagrams down the sides of the puzzle and a clever piece of misdirection at 6dn, which … Read more >>
It’s the end of the week and once again, we have a Phi to solve. Once again, we have no complaints.
A tricky solve in parts, with some parsing only worked through when writing up the blog. Favourites 14ac, 19ac, 28ac and 29ac. Thanks to Brendan
Rodriguez has provided our Thursday cruciverbal challenge, with plenty of 2 for us to get our teeth into. I found this to be an enjoyable puzzle, medium to hard in terms of difficulty, … Read more >>
Julius is the setter of today's FT puzzle.
Hi (or should that be high?) everybody.
A nice puzzle with some elegant clueing. Thanks to Pangakupu. I noticed that the left and right columns contained the letters KORIPO MARAMA, which I see means bad weather in the Māori language. … Read more >>