Never knowingly undersolved
One of the most complex preambles I can recall reading. Across clues have no numbers and are missing a letter in their wordplay. The missing letters spell out where one might find pine … Read more >>
Leonidas is today's setter.
Another great puzzle from Picaroon. Not easy, with some tricky constructions and devious definitions, but well worth the effort and satisfying to finish. Thanks to Picaroon. Across 1 DISCOMBOBULATE Throw party, performing … Read more >>
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of March 5, 2022
An entertaining puzzle as always from Julius. Thank you.
Imogen's today's Guardian setter.
My fourth Tees blog in five weeks, but I’m quite happy. Tees varies his subject matter so every puzzle is a slightly different challenge. There are often classical references to … Read more >>
Phi is a prolific crossword setter.. His puzzles feature regularly in the Independent daily crossword series and the Saturday Inquisitor puzzles. The preamble stated: Nine clues have a single-letter misprint … Read more >>
Decent, lightly-themed Tuesday entertainment from Gaff, but…
A reasonably straightforward Tuesday challenge from Crosophile.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28705.
This puzzle commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Azed series.
Anto’s usual trickier-than-your-average Quiptic. Contains strong language.
It’s almost exactly a year since my last blog of a Carpathian puzzle and there has been only one cryptic one, among eight Quiptics, since then. I’d like to see Carpathian more often … Read more >>
Silvanus returns after a few months away as do I to my old Monday slot,