Never knowingly undersolved
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 >>
A fair Tuesday test from Gumm.
Thank you to Chandler. Definitions are underlined in the clues. Across 1. Factory worker ready to supply remote control device (7) HANDSET : HAND(a factory worker/one engaged in manual labour) + SET(ready/in a … Read more >>
Today’s puzzle (from 2002) is in memory of John Young (DOGBERRY) who died in May.
This was certainly the toughest Monday puzzle I've done in a long time. Had I not been blogging, I might well have given up half way through and in the end it took me three longish sessions to finish it.
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/28788.
The puzzle is available here. Hi everybody. I enjoyed this puzzle, most of which went in smoothly until at 5d I had a mental block and impatiently used a wildcard search. The … Read more >>
The puzzle may be found at https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/everyman/3948.
A puzzle from Mev – a new setter for me to blog, but ‘they’ have previous…… published crosswords Good fun I liked 14ac – though I suspect you have to be of an … Read more >>
In the preamble to my last Prize crossword blog, four weeks ago, I said that the theme of that puzzle, by Imogen, couldn’t have been more up my street. I count myself lucky … Read more >>
Phi continues to be the regular occupant of the Independent‘s Friday slot.