Never knowingly undersolved
It’s four months since Brummie appeared in the Saturday slot and that puzzle also fell to me to blog. It had Special Instructions, with eight clues producing one of a pair of commonly … Read more >>
Thank you to Pasquale. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 8. What Jacob was? Leader of House — stuffy with it (8) HAIRLESS : 1st letter of(Leader of) “House” plus(… with it) … Read more >>
A bit tricky from Phi this morning.
A typical BRADMAN offering this Friday. Thanks Bradman.
Today's FT is by Neo.
We have a Tees to blog this Thursday.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28689.
“In 27 clues an extra letter (always in the wordplay part) must be discarded before solving, thereby completing most of A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION; another to be eliminated must be removed from the grid. The finisher must be revealed by replacing an appropriate word (six cells). The theme must be highlighted in the grid, apart from the 1st, 5th and 14th (last) letters. Finally, the two parts must be linked by adding a bar and then both parts embellished (in the solver’s own style) to depict the finisher. All changes leave real words; Chambers Dictionary (2016) is recommended.”
Non-prize puzzle from the Weekend FT of February 12, 2022
Today brings us the latest offering from our every-other-Wednesday setter, Eccles. For me, this was pitched at exactly the right level for a mid-week puzzle, with challenge and entertainment on offer in equal … Read more >>
A nice puzzle in a traditional style, but not old-fashioned. Some easy clues, some hard ones. Thank you Moo.
It’s five months since I blogged a Philistine puzzle, so I was very pleased to see his name on this one. I thought this was Philistine in slightly less tricky mode, apart from … Read more >>
Ah, an Ifor puzzle. We can expect some tricky clues with misleading definitions (though fair) and an intricate end game. The rubric read: There is an extra word of four or more letters … Read more >>
Happy 90th to Rufus, and thanks to Vulcan for the puzzle…